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The Chumash are a Native American people of the central and southern coastal regions of California, in portions of what is now Kern, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles Counties, extending from Morro Bay in the north to Malibu in the south to Mt Pinos in the east.
The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary [1] is a National Marine Sanctuary in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties on the Central Coast of California. It was designated on October 11, 2024, by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Starting in 1769, Spanish soldiers and missionaries arrived to colonize the California coast, Christianize the native population, found military presidios and relocate Chumash people from their villages into Spanish missions. [16] Due to violence and imported disease, Chumash people died at devastating rates under Spanish rule. [17]
It will give the Chumash people, once the largest cultural group in California, a say in the way the marine sanctuary is preserved. The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary, designated by the Biden administration last week, is the first tribally nominated sanctuary in the United States.
The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, which has territory overlapping with the sanctuary and is the only federally recognized Chumash tribe, has been designated as NOAA's key Indigenous partner.
To the Chumash people, Mount Pinos is called Iwihinmu. In the Samala language it means "a place of mystery", referring to its enigmatic place at the center of Chumash cosmology and spirituality. The summit is known as Liyikshup, Samala for the "center of the world", considered to be the exact center of the Chumash universe, as well as a place ...
The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians is a federally recognized tribe of Chumash, an Indigenous people of California, in Santa Barbara. [2] Their name for themselves is Samala. [3] The locality of Santa Ynez is referred to as ’alaxulapu in Chumashan language. [4] [5]
The Northern Chumash Tribal Council organized an aerial tour of lands bordering the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary on Sept. 18, 2024. Walker was born in Avila Beach, delivered by her ...