Amah Mutsun

The closure of Highway 1 in Big Sur has cost Central Coast communities hundreds of millions of dollars in lost tourism spending. And, the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band will regain full access rights to land in their ancestral territory for the first time since their forced removal over 225 years ago.

The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and Indigenous leaders from across California are pushing to remove mission bell markers from across the state. The El Camino Real mission bells were installed along the network of roads that lead between the 21 missions in California.

Descendants of the Native Americans who lived on the Central Coast before the establishment of the missions have an ambitious plan. The Amah Mutsun Tribal…