Lecture to Explore Chumash Traditions
Alan 鈥楽pirit Hawk鈥 Salazar, a Native American storyteller and educator, shares his unique perspective in a talk, 鈥淐humash Traditions: Storytelling and a Maritime Legacy,鈥 on Tuesday, March 7, at 3:30 p.m. in Founders Room. The lecture, part of 黑料百科鈥檚 Sustainability Speaker Series, is free and open to the public.
鈥淎s residents of the Central Coast, it鈥檚 important that we have a deeper understanding of this region's Native American history and traditions,鈥 says Michelle Aronson, 黑料百科鈥檚 sustainability and marketing coordinator. 鈥淚 hope people will leave the talk with a new understanding of the Chumash Native Americans, their history, culture and reverence for Mother Nature.鈥
Salazar鈥檚 ancestry can be traced to the Chumash and Tataviam village of Ta鈥檃pu, now known as Simi Valley. He is a founding member of the Kern County Native American Heritage Preservation Council and the Chumash Maritime Association. He serves on the California Advisory Council for the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and has advised the Ventura County Indian Education Consortium for more than 18 years.
Salazar built the first modern working traditional Chumash plank canoe, which he has paddled for more than 17 years.