Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SANTA YNEZ, CA — October 7, 2024 — The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians will host California-style Native American singing, ...

For more than 10,000 years, Native Americans have been living along California’s central coast, an area of breathtaking beauty with stunning turquoise waters rich in biodiversity. Now, in the first ...

People have lived in what’s now California and Baja California (a part of Mexico) for almost 20,000 years. Because the ...

SANTA YNEZ, CA — October 8, 2025 — The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians will host California-style Native American singing, dancing, food and games at the 19th annual Santa Ynez Chumash Culture Day ...

The sounds of singing and drumming, and the sights of colorful regalia and traditional food will grace Santa Ynez as Native American tribes from throughout North America gather to celebrate Indigenous ...

Chumash Day Powwow and Intertribal Gathering at Malibu Bluffs Park is a gathering of families and an homage to ancestors and Native American culture. And when it returns for its 25th anniversary on ...

A group of Native Americans is building the acient canoes called tomols. The tomols offer a way to understand a way of life before it was devastated by colonization. The boat is a time machine. It's ...

The city of Buellton formally recognized Native American Heritage Month during its Nov. 13 City Council meeting by signing a proclamation honoring the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians and the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. For more than 10,000 years, Native Americans ...