The Kumeyaay tribe map:

Diegueño, Iipay-Tiipay, Mission Indians, Kumiai aboriginal tribal bands of the U.S.-Mexico border region

The Kumeyaay have been categorized within the so-called Hokan Delta-California group of the Yumans.

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Complete list index of the federally-recognized Kumeyaay bands of the Kumeyaay Nation, an Indigenous tribe of Southern California, Southwestern region of the United States -- includes the four Kumiai ejidos (tribal community ranches) of Baja California Norte located on the Mexico-U.S. border region.

KUMEYAAY MAP of the current Kumeyaay Indian reservations and territories -- FREE MAP DOWNLOAD royalty-free for education and non-profit use.

12 Kumeyaay bands -- 13 Kumeyaay Indian reservations

Southern California Kumeyaay bands, featuring 13 federally-recognized sovereign Kumeyaay Indian reservations. Official websites: Locate each band's website for Internet access to their Kumeyaay band's perspectives directly from their tribal archivists and historians:

• Campo Band of the Kumeyaay Nation
• Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians
• Barona Band of Mission Indians
• San Pasqual Band of Indians
• Inaja Cosmit Indian Reservation
• Capitan Grande Indian Reservation
• Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueño Indians, aka Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel
• Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians aka Cuyapaipe
• Manzanita Indian Reservation
• La Posta Indian Reservation
• Jamul Indian Village A Kumeyaay Nation
• Mesa Grande Band of Diegueño Mission Indians
• Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation

Our exclusive map of the Kumeyaay bands pinpoints the current tribal regions of the Kumeyaay American Indian tribe.

The Kumeyaay are believed to have occupied this general area for some 12,000 years.

Visit our Kumeyaay History and timeline to learn information about Kumeyaay language, culture, featuring historical and contemporary photographs, scholarly research articles and essays about ethnographic studies concerning the Kumeyaay people's right to sovereign self governance as Southern California's original aboriginal inhabitants.

HOW TO CONTACT THE TRIBAL BANDS:

Visit the SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TRIBAL CHAIRMEN'S ASSOCIATION SCTCA for more complete information about the Native American Indian reservations in Southern California, including their leadership, official websites, contacts, phone numbers, addresses, cultural and businesses background summaries.

For similar information about the tribal bands of California -- Northern, Central, Southern -- vist the CALIFORNIA TRIBAL CHAIRPERSON'S ASSOCIATION.

• San Jose de la Zorra
• La Huerta
• Juntas de Neji
• San Antonio Necua
• Santa Catarina (Kumeyaay-Pai Pai)

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KUMEYAAY TERRITORIES HISTORICALLY

Right map highlights the Kumeyaay ancestral tribal homelands in gray prior to European immigration -- the dots on the modern left map show approximate present-day locations of the thirteen small U.S. Kumeyaay Indian reservations, and four Kumiai Indio tribal community ranches in Baja California, Mexico, at the turn of the 21st century.

More historical MAPS OF THE KUMEYAAY for downloading (1776-present).

Prehistoric Kumeyaay-Diegueño excavated aboriginal indigenous sites.

Michael G. Baksh, Ph.D.:

"From a historical perspective, European contact represented the end of the region's archaeologically-known "Late Prehistoric Period". This final period of prehistoric occupation in San Diego and Imperial counties was characterized by a hunting and gathering economy, with a heavy emphasis on the exploitation of acorns in the mountains and mesquite beans in the desert..." MORE.

The Kumeyaay language spoken by today's Kumeyaay speakers includes a northern dialect (Iipay) and a southern dialect (Tiipay).

LEARN how to pronounce KUMEYAAY from a Native speaker: Howka Sam (Viejas).

Go to our LANGUAGE Department for more information.

As such, the U.S. government recognizes their reservations as sovereign tribal lands, and their tribal councils as sovereign tribal governments.

For more information to learn about about tribal sovereignty in America, please see our NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN SOVEREIGNTY GUIDE.

Play the best San Diego County Kumeyaay Indian casinos, resorts, hotels, restaurants, entertainment, golf courses -- find the official Kumeyaay casino and tribal websites on our exclusive original Kumeyaay mapping project maps.

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12,000-YEAR HISTORY OF KUMEYAAY in San Diego.

HOW TO RESEARCH Kumeyaay of Southern California.

KUMEYAAY & TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY in the U.S.A.

KUMEYAAY NEWS daily and breaking news blogs.

ETHNOGRAPHIC OVERVIEW of the Kumeyaay.

KUMEYAAY GUIDE a (3rd & 4th grade) Teacher's Guide to Historical and Contemporary Kumeyaay Culture.

WIKIPEDIA probably the largest online research project about the Kumeyaay people.

KUMEYAAY ETHNOGRAPHIC ARTS

KUMEYAAY MUSEUMS-RESEARCH

STORYTELLERS featuring Sam Brown's famous Kumeyaay stories of the Brown-Curo family of Barona and Viejas.

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