Upcoming Events
Island Trips
Thanks to generous support and our partnerships with The Nature Conservancy and UC Reserve System (UCSB), Lulapin is happy to host trips to limuw (Santa Cruz Island) for members of the Chumash communities. We’ll share 2025 dates with you as soon as we’ve established them.
Being together is important, but being together on limuw is taniwašǝ’ǝ’ǝtš (supreme.) Lulapin is building and delivering our land-based education program with a focus on traditional life-ways, history, language, food-ways and more.
Each trip is designed for 15 Chumash community members for 3 day/2 night stays at the UCReserve at nimatlala (the center of limuw.) Ferry service and meals are provided.
Please keep visiting our website and socials to learn of this years (2025) trips. We will get the dates out for your consideration as early as possible so you have plenty of time to plan.
’alištaxan!
October 17-19, 2025
SORRY TO ALL. THIS TRIP HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
November 14-16, 2025
We invite you for a November weekend of culture, community, and gathering. As the season turns and the days grow shorter, stay cozy fireside and witness the autumnal colors of the island.
December 5-7, 2025
Come join us for a winter weekend of culture, community and gathering. Stay warm by the fire, enjoy FOOD and STORY at this special time of reflection and renewal.
nimatlala: Dec. 6-8, 2024
Last trip of 2024
Please register for our last trip of the year. It’s a beautiful time on limuw and we look forward to closing the year with you.
liyam: July 5-7
’išawi (Summer) 2024
Our registration for the July trip to liyam will open around May 1st. Keep your eyes on our social media or here and register to join us!
nimatlala: Nov. 25-27, 2023
Register here for our last trip of the year. We’ll be enjoying an alter-Native Thanksgiving at nimatlala, limuw (UC Reserve Station.)
liyam kanimatlala
Come join us on the second trip of the year to liyam kanimatlala (the center of limuw.) We’ll travel to kaxas (Prisoners Harbor) and then to The Nature Conservancy lands at limuw (Santa Cruz Island,) where they host the Santa Cruz Island Reserve (SCIR) of the University of California at Santa Barbara. We’ll learn about our language, place, history, plants and more! REGISTER HERE.
Lulapin Island Trips - Zoom Forum #3
Over the last 2-3 years, Lulapin has hosted a number of trips to the northern Channel Islands. Besides enjoyment of the islands and building our Chumash community, we’ve learned about research and restoration projects and developed land-based educational programming of our own. Please register for our upcoming zoom forum to meet participants, hear about their experiences and share your thoughts. We will also interview outgoing director of the UC Reserve and super-host, Jay Reti.
REGISTER HERE
nimatlala
Register -HERE- for this June’s trip to nimatlala, limuw. We will travel to Prisoners Harbor and then to The Nature Conservancy lands at limuw (Santa Cruz Island,) where they host the Santa Cruz Island Reserve (SCIR) of the University of California at Santa Barbara. There is a lot of research taking place here throughout the year and they want us to engage in activities, as well. Some ideas floated have been to gather traditional foods, cook in traditional ways etc. Come learn what others have been researching, join in and add to the discussion!
The Chumash Community at satik̓oy
Candelaria Valenzuela
Lulapin Chumash Foundation is proud to present:
The Chumash Community at Saticoy: A presentation by Dr. John Johnson.
The mid-nineteenth ranchería of Saticoy represents a post-Mission enclave in which the Ventureño (Mitsqanaqan) Chumash language probably served for everyday communication and traditional cultural practices continued. Similar Native American settlements existed throughout California following mission secularization in the 1830s. We are fortunate that records survive that document in some detail the people and social relationships that characterized Saticoy during the mid-nineteenth century. By weaving together biographical information from census records, mission registers, and the ethnographic interviews conducted by J. P. Harrington, a fuller picture of this vital Ventureño Chumash community emerges. Such studies can contribute invaluable information to contemporary Chumash, linking them to the lives of their ancestors.