Chumash blessing | Mati Waiya | TEDxOrangeCoast
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Mati Wayia shows a Chumash blessing, that he proposes to be at the beginning of every TED talk. He adds: “When we become a part of nature, and let nature become a part of us, we start to understand the time that nature lives by, a natural time.”
Mati Waiya is a Chumash ceremonial leader, founder of Wishtoyo Foundation, a non-profit organization that protects Chumash culture and the environment all people depend upon. In 1998 he built the Chumash Discovery Village, a revival of a traditional Chumash Village on an 8,000 year old site over looking the Pacific Ocean in Malibu, CA where cultural resource laws, protecting sensitive archaeological sites, endangered species and natural resources are addressed and were cultural preservation and educational programs teach Chumash values and environmental preservation. He presents programs in traditional regalia for schools, public events, government functions and grassroots foundations sharing his knowledge of Chumash traditions, sustainable life ways and environmental responsibility.
Mati inspires the growth of the relationship with the natural world through education as a primary tool for a healthy, sustainable environment, awakening a passion for our natural surroundings in young people today to be passed on for generations to come.
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This is my cousin and for those of you saying that he's just acting, he's not but if you choose to believe that then that's fine too. I won't argue to try and make you believe anything. We have done major digging and verifying of our relatives, to prove our bloodlines are true, and our ancestors and family are indeed chumash native to the land. We have a huge family and we are all still very much active in all things Chumash or native. We have ceremonies and gatherings and celebrate what we believe.
I cannot believe the disrespect from one Native to another. To depict what is authentic and what is not. So because they are California Native American they are not authentic. That is wrong with us Native people is that we continue to step on each other. And that is why we can’t move forward and strengthen our Nations. right away someone wants to say they Sundance or they are an enrolled member of a tribe they think they can talk down to another Native. As a Sundancer you know not to speak negative about another Native. Maybe someone needs to go back to their traditional teachings. Bottoms line bad medicine so sad
I'm Chumash and I'm having a discovery of my secret culture. See I never knew I was native, but then my mother found her dad and he's native so ye. Know I shall uncover the rock which had been buried in time.
Just so y’all know: this man is not Chumash. There are several articles written about it. He is even banned from our museum for pretending like this. The whole stuff with the conch shell isn’t Chumash at all along with other features of the performance.
Embarrassing
Thank you Mati for teaching and carrying on Our traditions!
What an amazing man to bring this message of taking care of our community and our earth.
Is it just me or the language is reminiscent of Hawaiian... even down to the conch shell blowing.
I have a question did the chumash descend from the Aztecs?
Yes even the native name for Santa Cruz Island is limuw which is similar to the Hawaiian word for the edible seaweed which grows in the ocean that we eat still today and not to mention the strikingly similar bone fish hooks Hawaiians and Polynesian used.
dude LARPs as Chumash and goes and speaks at TedTalks. They did some talk on him and said nothing he says is even Chumash nor his clothes.
Thank you Mati,
yo ted talks with the amount of people calling this guy buy his real name and false identity I think it deserves to be taken down until further investigation???
I love the song too
Love ya uncle. Really cool you went on Ted Talk :)
I just am seeing this.Burning sage ,having coffee
I’m Chumash chionio family !.
I have a question, what is the Chumash word for Love as in a romantical man x woman relationship, I am Lakota born Jewish adopted, currently studying Native history, language, and culture, and am Majoring in History with a Minor in Native American Study, and want to know more about ALL Native cultures, Anyways Thanks! AND Have an AMAZING Day / Afternoon / Evening / Night WHEREVER YOU MAY BE & WHENEVER YOU READ THIS, WHOMEVER YOU MAY BE! CHEERS! :D
So it's been 8 years since this video was made. What has happened since ?
Frank Rocha.