OLD TOWN SANDIEGO FIESTA 2005

Kumeyaay elder Jane Dumas and her daughter, Daleane "Dee" Dumas-Adams, hosted their 4th ANNUAL FIESTA in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park through their California Indian store and gift shop, SHUMUP KO HUP.

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One of the last fluent Kumeyaay speakers in the United States, JANE DUMAS, Kumeyaay of Jamul Indian Village, is recorded here addressing the fiesta crowd in her Native Kumeyaay language -- San Diego's original language -- and then translating her Kumeyaay words into the English language.

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The Dumas family historical photographs are avalable in their online Native American family historical SCRAPBOOK.

In attendance at the fiesta was a virtual who's who of Native American California Indian artists, storytellers, basket makers, pottery artists, Indian museums, Indigenous bird singers and bird dancers.

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