We are all so fortunate to live in the Santa Clarita Valley. Yes, that is exactly what I think. So much has happened here since the first humans wandered into this valley maybe 10,000 years ago or so. Later, much later, a group of people called the Tataviam came to our valley. The Tataviam, or “people...

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They were the earliest known inhabitants of the Santa Clarita Valley. A Native American tribe known as the Tataviam lived a life unchanged for centuries until a Spanish expedition led by Gaspar de Portola entered the Valley in 1769. From then on, life for the Tataviam would never be the same. The Santa...

They were the earliest known inhabitants of the Santa Clarita Valley.  A Native American tribe known as the Tataviam lived a life unchanged for centuries until a Spanish expedition led by Gaspar de Portola entered the Valley in 1769. From then on, life for the Tataviam would never be the same. The Santa...

I’m still laughing about the comments to the Facebook status update I posted Tuesday. I was at Newhall Refinery having a late lunch-dinner and reported the following: “At Newhall Refinery. Blue Balls.” The menu calls them that. I find them delicious, and only at Newhall Refinery can you get them. If...

Find out about the Santa Clarita Valley’s earliest inhabitants Sunday at 2 p.m. when COC Anthropology Professor Laurie Solis gives a talk at the Placerita Nature Center. The lecture will cover the history of the Tataviam people, the native American group that lived in the Santa Clarita Valley as well...

The prehistoric period in California is often considered one of the most interesting in the world due to the highly complex indigenous cultural systems that flourished there. More distinct cultural groups and languages coexisted in California during the pre-Spanish period than any other region in the...

Charlie Cooke, left, performs the blessing at the SCV Historical Society museum upon the transference of artifacts from Newhall Land’s River Village development site in 2007, Receiving the blessing is Rudy Ortega Jr., current tribal captain of the Fernandeño-Tataviam Band of Mission Indians. Click...

[Supv. Antonovich] – Orit Haj, the name of the artwork at the newly dedicated Vasquez Rocks Interpretive Center, has been selected as one of the 50 best public art projects by the 2013 Public Art Network Year in Review by Americans for the Arts, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for...

19th-century outlaw Tiburcio Vasquez, the rocks’ namesake. Part 1: Interpretive Center Rising at Bandit’s Rocky Hideout(5-9-2012) Part 2: Projects at Vasquez Rocks Emphasize Green Design, Art(5-26-2012) Part 3: Nature, History to Share Spotlight at New Vasquez Center (6-21-2012) Part 4: Agua...