In Fall 2022, the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians are slated to open a museum and cultural center on their reservation – something they call a long anticipated dream. The museum will be filled with stories that were lost for a long time, along with exhibits and events that showcase their own language that was only recently rediscovered. In this episode we speak to the tribe and go inside the future museum.
Read MoreA Santa Barbara woman cashed in her winning ticket in Chumash Casino Resort's Dream Big giveaway Sunday and claimed a 2022 Georgetown motorhome worth over $150,000.
Read MoreOn the heels of raising the hourly minimum wage to $17 for nontipped positions at its properties, the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians will host job fairs on Tuesday, January 11 at the Dick DeWees Community Center in Lompoc and on Thursday, January 13 at the Santa Maria Inn.
Read MoreUnited Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara County, North County Rape Crisis and Child Protection Center, and Technology in Schools program each received $40,000
Read MoreWhile the Chumash Casino Resort’s annual concert to bring awareness the area’s Toys for Tots campaign did not occur this year, the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians maintained its contribution to the campaign’s efforts to supply toys to economically disadvantaged children this holiday season.
Read MoreThe Chumash Casino Resort raised more than $13,000 for Mission Hope Cancer Center in Santa Maria during its annual Project Pink campaign that featured pink-hued treats for sale at its eateries throughout October in an effort to raise awareness and funds during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Read MoreAn Oxnard man won big Wednesday morning after hitting a jackpot playing a game of Ultimate Texas Hold’em and betting on a side wager at the Chumash Casino Resort table games.
Read MoreAbout 140 miles of California’s central coastline will be protected from oil drilling and recognized for their cultural, economic, and ecological significance as the Biden administration moved to protect the area.
Read MoreThe 15th annual Chumash Culture Day will be hosted on Facebook Live, featuring California-style Native American singing and dancing, from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 23.
Read MoreThe Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians has not been able to celebrate holidays such as Indigenous People’s Day with large events this year.
Read MoreThe Chumash Casino Resort kicked off its annual Project Pink campaign Friday that features pink-hued treats for sale at its eateries throughout October in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Read MoreNative seedlings are popping out of black plastic trays at a tribal plant nursery in Santa Ynez: purple sage, coast live oak, tobacco, islay cherries, gooseberry, mugwort, bladderpod, buckwheat, wild rye, dogbane. The list goes on
Read MoreSolvang hotel Hadsten House will temporarily close its doors Sept. 1 for renovations, according to owners, the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. The projected reopening date is spring of 2022.
Read MoreFor over a decade, our tribe has been meticulously working behind the scenes to advance our vision of creating a space where visitors can gather and learn firsthand about the Chumash people of this region.
Read MoreWhen rising water rates threatened the future of two youth sports leagues that share costs at a local field, the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians and key county businesses pitched in to turn an ambitious solution into a reality.
Read MoreIn an effort to fill more than 200 full-time and part-time staffing vacancies, Chumash Enterprises is offering special $250 monthly bonuses this summer to employees in specified positions and hosting a job fair from 10 a.m. 4 p.m. on Wednesday, June 9 at the Chumash Employee Resource Center in Buellton.
Read MoreMore than a dozen years ago the Phoebe A. Hearst museum fired its anthropology team that was supposed to be monitoring human remains and said it had a final inventory of some 2000 human remains and funerary objects. All of those remains and objects are associated with the Chumash people. Even now the tribe has said the University of California Berkeley is a “documented bad actor” that continues to deliberately obstruct repatriation. Today we speak with Chairman Kenneth Kahn of the Santa Ynez Band of Mission Indians.
Read MoreTeam Chumash, a branch of Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Foundation, is the employee volunteer program for Chumash Enterprises. The program rewards team members for their volunteerism by awarding them with $500 All-Star grants from the foundation to be donated to a nonprofit of their choice.
Read MoreKenneth Kahn was re-elected tribal chairman of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians in a recent vote that was held to appoint the tribe’s governing body. Also re-elected were all four members of the tribe’s Business Committee: Mike Lopez, Maxine Littlejohn, Gary Pace and Raul Armenta.
Read MoreWASHINGTON — On Monday, Rep. Deb Haaland became the first Native American confirmed to serve in the president’s Cabinet — a historic moment celebrated by American Indians throughout the country.
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