Naming cold entered my bones because Suraj disappeared near Estero Bluffs State Park, near the city Cayucos, CaliforniaI chose my way in the tide pool, keeping an eye on the hiding octopus between the rocks. I was on a forging tour with the organization KelpfulLearning to collect and prepare sewed, such as spin and salinians, who had previously resided on these lands for thousands of years.
For the last decade, many indigenous groups across the state have been working to create a protected area with this part. Central Coast of CaliforniaThe idea was first proposed in 2015 by the Chief Fred Collins of the Northern Chhumas Adivasi Parishad and kept alive by his daughter, Vilet Sage Walker – now the council president – he died in 2021. “My father believed that we should do better for mother meaning, animals and each other,” the walker told me. “This is an honor to carry forward their legacy.”
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Last September, the Biden administration nominated some 4,500 square miles coastal water, spreading from San Luis Obispo to Gaviota coast of Santa Barbara County, operating by indigenous people as the country’s first maritime sanctuary. Chunma Heritage National Marine Sanctuary Protects the beaches and coastline, and extends 60 miles in the Pacific Ocean, protects different types of vegetation, such as dense kelp forests, and organisms, including leopards and horn sharks, blue whales, and black umbalones. Just as important, it recognizes “tribal buried grounds, formal sites and spiritually important places,” said Walker.
Indigenous leadership tourists of the sanctuary are coming soon. Meanwhile, passengers can go with whale-looking Best day Eve Boat Adventures Or rent a kayak, like I did, Avila Beach PaddalSports,
Those who have passed for my father, our ancestors and elders will be most excited to know that this area will be preserved forever. ,
To learn about a spiny life, a good first stop Santa yanez chizi museum and cultural centerWhich was opened last year. Visitors enter through a large ‘AP, A traditional dome -shaped house, in which iron doors are engraved with pictographs and clopper sticks (a musical instrument used in songs and ceremonies) with a pictograph and handle. Visitors can also deviate from a 3.5-acre garden in which indigenous plants such as dogbanes and Yerba Mansa are also displayed about Chhumas Basketry, Redwood Donga and other traditions.
The location of the museum is also important: this point faces conception, a rugged headland in the west Humqaq, Where his ancestors left the physical world to enter the realm of the soul. “For my father, our ancestors, and the elderly who have passed,” Walker said, “They will be most excited to know that the region will be preserved forever.”
A version of this story first appeared in the February 2025 issue. Travel + holiday Title “Holy Water”,
