Chumash firefighters search for signs of Native American past in Woolsey fire burn scar
by Javier Panzar, Los Angeles Times
Dec 20, 2018
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - It had been weeks since the Woolsey fire tore through the Santa Monica Mountains, and Gilbert Romero walked carefully beneath a scorched canopy of live oak trees.
Romero, a fire captain with the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, passed a circle of rocks to his left and the bones of a blackened deer carcass to his right. He then knelt on the sooty ground near a pile of rocks
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