November is Native American Heritage Month. When Spanish colonizers arrived in California, they bought livestock and plants that displaced the ecology that Native Americans had relied on for millennia. In October a small step to reverse the wresting of control from Native Americans was taken with the creation of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary, more than 4,500 square miles of Pacific Ocean and coastline in the ancestral area inhabited by the Chumash and Salinan Peoples. This marine sanctuary will be the first managed by both NOAA and the indigenous people of the area.