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Including the four tribal nations indigenous to Imperial & San Diego County: Kumeyaay-Diegueno, Luiseno, Cupeno, Cahuilla
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The Kumeyaay are members of the YUMAN INDIAN TRIBE of North America whose ancestral tribal homelands include Southern California, southwest Arizona, and northwest Baja California, Mexico. Today's first nations of aboriginal Yuman peoples of the southwestern United States of America, USA, include: Kumeyaay (aka Kumiai, Diegueño, Ipai-Tipai, Kamia) The Yuman peoples belong to the HOKAN LANGUAGE group. |
Welcome good people: I just updated most of my movies and audio clips to correct Apple's QuickTime error — I put a near full resolution short version of my Necua Kumiai Fiesta documentary in .mp4 to play and download on current iOS, macOS, Android and Windows. Just 
Understanding San Diego history is all about perspective...
Here since 10000 BC — an editorial perspective, timeline and Kumeyaay history essay about San Diego's original native people — 600 generations in San Diego!
ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE KUMEYAAY WAY
an historical academically-researched paper about Southern California tribal SUBSISTENCE | HOUSING & TECHNOLOGY | SETTLEMENTS & SEASONAL ROUND | KUMEYAAY AGRICULTURE | SOCIAL ORGANIZATION | TRADE | SPIRITUAL LIFE
The 12 American Kumeyaay bands are "federally-recognized" American Indian tribes. As such, the U.S. government sees the Kumeyaay tribe as 12 individual bands as "sovereign nations" and interacts with the bands individually on a government-to-government basis.
Further, the 13 Kumeyaay Indian reservations in the County of San Diego are considered "sovereign land."
Sovereign American Indian tribal governments also benefit from a basic legal term called "sovereign immunity" that non-Indians should be aware of if they visit an Indian reservation, Indian casino, resort or do business with a sovereign American tribe.
What many people may not realize about "tribal sovereignty" in the USA is it legally exempts federally-recognized American Indian tribes and their tribal lands from many of the local, city, state, federal and international laws and regulations, including some types of taxes, permits and zoning issues that strictly govern most non-Indians, their communities and businesses....
KOSA'AAY.ORG INTERPRETATION PROPOSAL:
With this letter we wish to communicate that: 1) Kosa’aay (Cosoy) was the 1769 Birthplace of California and lies within the Old Town Community; 2) At this site in August, 1769 was the first instance of organized First-Nations resistance against European Colonization on the U.S. Pacific Coast; 3) The Old Town Community Plan identifies history and historic sites as the primary economic resource of their community, 4) Heritage tourist sites, developed in San Diego have great economic success; and, 5) The Mission Valley Community Plan covets this Old Town historic site for their circulation element. 6) The foremost potential for growth for Old Town’s future is the interpretation of 1769 Kosa’aay-California’s Birthplace; therefore, 7) The Public Lands North of Taylor Street and East of Morena Boulevard should be culturally protected and historically interpreted for the benefit of the Old Town Community, San Diego, California and the USA....
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| KUMEYAAY TRIBAL INDEX, California, USA |
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The Kumeyaay tribe of Southern California today consist of approximately 12 federally-recognized Kumeyaay bands, and 13 sovereign Kumeyaay Indian reservations. The Kumeyaay tribe is commonly referred to as the Mission Indians of Southern California, Mission Indians of San Diego County and Imperial County, California Mission Indians, Southern Diegueno Indians, Ipai-Tipai and Iipay Tipay Indians, Native American Indians of Southern California, Kumeyaay tribal governments. The individual Kumeyaay bands in a non alphabetical index include:
Please see our informative KUMEYAAY GUIDE for a cultural brief, including Kumeyaay maps, contact info, official Kumeyaay tribal websites. |
| LA NACION KUMIAI, Baja California, Mexico |
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Kumeyaay Kumiai Indian community ejidos, tribal Indian villages of northwest B.C. Mexico, features extensive professional photojournalistic TRIBAL DOCUMENTARIES, movie videos, people, lifestyle, habitation, art:
Citlalli Salazar, Kumiai, a young 18-year-old Native girl models an antique Southern California Indian basket hat (probably desert Cahuilla art) — her tribal village, San Jose de la Zorra, landscape is pictured in background, a rare old polychrome Kumeyaay clay pot is to right.
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| INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY |
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What Native American Indian tribes are indigenous to San Diego County? There are four aboriginal tribal groups considered indigenous to San Diego County:
IN FACT: California has the second largest Native American population in the United States, including some 109 federally-recognized Indian tribal bands — desert, mountain, inland, valley, coastal, river tribes. And with some 19 California Indian reservations, San Diego County has more federally-recognized Native American Indian reservations than any other county in the United States, including 18 sovereign tribal governments, and some 17,000 tribal members living both on and off reservations. If you are visiting beautiful San Diego, you are definitely in Indian Country!
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| CAHUILLA INDIANS |
| The Cahuilla Indian people are considered an indigenous tribe of the County of San Diego, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, Cochella Valley. For some 2,000 years, Cahuilla ancestral homelands historically included an area of about 2,400 square miles in the heart of Southern California. The tribe's northern border area was the San Bernardino Mountains, to the south by the Chocolate Mountains and Borrego Springs. The Colorado Desert to the east, and west by the San Jacinto Plain and the eastern slopes of the Palomar Mountains.
Today's Southern California Chauilla tribal bands include:
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| LUISENO INDIANS |
| The Luiseño Indian tribe is comprised of six federally-recognized tribal bands in Southern California.
Considered an indigenous tribe of the County of San Diego, Riverside County, and San Bernardino County. Today's Southern California Chauilla Indian bands include:
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INDIAN GAMBLING CASINOS Tribal Sovereignty and Internet Gambling Rights | History of Indian Gaming in the US | MAP of All Best Southern California Indian Casinos | FAQ | History:
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Indian gaming across the US as an industry brings in around $26.5 billion a year, and generates more than 400,000 jobs — about 75 percent of those jobs are held by non-Indians (National Indian Gaming Commission website, 2011). |
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I AM AFRAID I MAY HAVE MESSED MY INFORMATION UP about the Shoshone Indians (maybe one day someone who actually knows what s/he is talking about can fix it...): SHOSHONEAN INDIANS are another major language group of California tribes in Southern California. The aboriginal Alta California Shoshonean or Shoshone tribes include:
The Southern California Indian reservations of the Shoshonean bands include:
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