Northern Chumash Tribal Council by Fred Collins
2013 and 2012 Columns
December, 2013 Effects of Bad Consultation With the Chumash in the City of Morro Bay
The City of Morro Bay was built on, around, and near the Chumash Village of Chicqwat'. The beautiful and peaceful village of Chicqwat' has been broken apart, chopped up, built upon, dug up, had sewer plants built upon, had Chumash cemeteries built upon, and displaced the Chumash native peoples. If one were to go back and look at all the houses, buildings, stores, businesses, refineries, power plants, highways, roads, trails, sacred Rocks, places of ceremony, and places of traditional gathering, they would find that the Chumash have been disgracefully abused in the land use process of the City of Morro Bay. Now, once again the wheels of disrespect are grinding out their words of abuse and destruction, for the new "Number One" prospect for the proposed waste water treatment facility.
November, 2013 Nipomo Dana Adobe Amigos / Draft EIR Process
The Nipomo Dana Adobe Amigos is in the Draft EIR process. The Northern Chumash Tribal Council (NCTC) has responded to this DEIR with the following comments and statements. NCTC is not happy with the Dana Adobe Amigos. The Chumash community has not had the best relationship with this organization. They have in the past refused to follow our requests to follow good, sound, and meaningful consultation concerning their impacts to Chumash Cultural Resources. For many years the Chumash community has been attempting to get them to follow proper protocols, to no avail.
October, 2013 California Central Coast Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary
The Northern Chumash Tribal Council has started grassroots collaboration between the Marine Sanctuary Alliance (MSA), Santa Lucia Chapter of Sierra Club, SLO Chapter of Surfrider Foundation, COAST, and others, for this great project and we invite your support. Our offshore waters have qualified for sanctuary designation since 1990. Now, with new marine sanctuaries possible, we propose the California Central Coast Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary.
January, 2013 Looking Back and Looking Forward 2012-
As we of the Northern Chumash Tribal Council look back on the great year of 2012 and contemplate the many different things that occurred, we saw many good things happen for Indigenous Peoples, but we also know that many unspeakable things are still happening around the world as I write this article.
December, 2012 The Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor
The Eagle and the Condor is an ancient Amazon prophecy that speaks of human societies splitting into two paths – that of the Eagle, and that of the Condor. The path of the Condor is the path of heart, of intuition, and of the feminine. The path of the Eagle is the path of the mind, of the industrial, and of the masculine.
November, 2012 How Indians Lost Legal Title to America
The dominant race has kept only one promise, "We will take all of your land," and they did. The American Revolution was about many things, but the most significant was the land. To Native Americans, Mother Earth (Hutash) is alive.
October, 2012 Statement of Concerns Against PG&E's Seismic Offshore Testing Along the San Luis Obispo County Coastline September 17, 2012
Statement of Concerns Against PG&E's Seismic Offshore Testing Along the San Luis
Obispo County Coastline. Every environmental impact report and environmental impact
statement has concluded the environmental devastation would be long-
September, 2012 The Northern Chumash Tribal Council (NCTC)
The Northern Chumash Tribal Council (NCTC) is involved with several important county land use issues that have received media attention. I am the Tribal Administrator for NCTC and I would like to share with our readers who and what NCTC is all about.
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