CAMARILLO, Calif.-Cal State University Channel Islands is hosting a new online Chumash Language Dictionary. Timothy Henry Rodriguez started developing the dictionary by studying the original John ...

After 87 years on planet Earth, Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto — an indefatigable, joyous, and fiercely outspoken advocate for Chumash historical and cultural preservation — bowed out quietly at Santa ...

Some people remember a culture. Others carry it. Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto belongs unmistakably to the latter category. To encounter her—even briefly — is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peering at a river mouth where Ventureño Chumash once paddled in a canoe they called “tomol” and gathered small mussels, or "kiw," ...

Members of the Chumash community gathered at UC Santa Barbara’s North Campus Open Space for an event that none of them had ever witnessed, a practice that had been lost for generations, that most ...

For thousands of years, the Chumash people lived along California's Central Coast and on its Channel Islands. Then the newcomers arrived — Spanish explorers, Catholic missionaries, Mexican rancheros, ...

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE — For more than 50 years, Vandenberg Space Force Base has embraced the rich history of the local Native American Chumash people through base access, cultural learning ...

Wayne Chapman uses a hand drill to start a coal, which Chumash Elder Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto, seated, will use to start the fire. Credit: Matt Perko Members of the Chumash community gathered at UC ...