FAUSTO DIAZ, Kumeyaay, San Jose de la Zorra, built a Native American Diegueño-Luiseño style EWAA (waa waah) or KICHA traditional shelter ancient aboriginal house hut of the California Indians of the southwest USA, a special project for the Old Town San Diego State Historic Park, pre-contact old Indian village of Cosoy, Alvarado family property.
CLICK HERE OR ON PHOTO TO RELOAD THE ENTIRE EWAA PORTFOLIO.
NOTE: THE 23-MINUTE EWAA MOVIE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET.
A key participant of this project personally released the KUMEYAAY.INFO ewaa documentary movie DVD into the public domain on November 19, 2005, but the movie was removed from the Internet nearly a year later by request of the participant.
The ewaa project was videotaped, scripted and edited to DVD and still pictures Web gallery by Gary G. Ballard, San Diego, copyright 2005 G BALLARD, all rights reserved.
To Ballard's understanding, the KUMEYAAY.INFO ewaa multimedia documentary is the result of a California State Parks Kumeyaay cultural project based on recreating a copy of the pre-contact Kumeyaay style houses that Gaspar de Portolà reported seeing in the ancient Kumeyaay village of Kosa'aay (now known as Old Town San Diego) when he first explored this Kumeyaay tribal area in 1769.
The KUMEYAAY.INFO ewaa documentary was produced in partnership with the former Shumup Ko Hup Kumeyaay store owners in collaboration with the California State Parks. Ballard got involved in the project by personal invitation of Jane Dumas, a Kumeyaay tribal elder who has direct lineage to the Kumeyaay families who last inhabited the Old Town area.
Today's thirteen surviving Kumeyaay bands are "federally-recognized" Indian tribes -- sovereign tribal governments -- who share a 12,000-year HISTORY OF KUMEYAAY occupying this area in Southern California.
Although the ewaa project was generously funded by tax dollars -- and the ewaa was constructed and photographed on public park land for the sole benefit of Native American cultural education, school children and the general public -- Ballard received zero compensation for his time or expenses to produce the DVD or any of the related Web articles.
Ballard worked more than 250 hours of his personal free time producing the 23-minute ewaa movie DVD and still-picture multimedia Web gallery for non-profit educational use.
A participant had his pictures removed and/or altered in the still picture gallery for privacy per his insistence, but the still picture gallery remains archived here for education purposes.
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