NATIVE AMERICAN hut shelter house home of the Kumeyaay Diegueno Luiseno Indians of Southern California Arizona northwest Mexico, southwest USA. FREE Native American documentary short movie video multimedia of Native Californians planning an Indian house, gathering willow tule cattails, and constructing the pre-contact hut or ancient shelter of the aboriginal Yuman peoples of North America, ewaa, waah, waa.

NATIVE AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY MOVIE

NOTE: I AM SORRY TO SAY OUR 23-MINUTE EWAA MOVIE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET...please see our production stills below, or watch our other FREE MOVIES.

The Ewaa video was filmed, scripted, directed and edited to DVD by GARY G. BALLARD, a professional multimedia journalist, photographer and creative director based in San Diego County.

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 indigenous Kumeyaay tribal region in 1769.

The KUMEYAAY.INFO ewaa documentary was produced in partnership with the former Shumup Ko Hup Kumeyaay store owners in collaboration with the Old Town San Diego State Historic Park — 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.

EWAA KICHA Native American House Pictures:

50 MOVIE PRODUCTION STILL PICTURES multimedia from this Native American documentary movie project are available for on-line viewing. Educational licensing of the DVD movie version of this film is available through KUMEYAAY.INFO.

Fausto Diaz, Kumiai, and the ewaa crew are filmed planning, gathering willow and tules, and building a Luiseño KICHA or Diegueño-Kumeyaay style EWAA, waah, ewaah, waa traditional Indian house as part of a cultural project sponsored by the Old Town San Diego State Historic Park administration.

The 14- by 8-foot Indian ewaa is of an ancient North America pre-contact aboriginal design and is documented in this educational film documentary as it is being built on the original site of the Alvarado family property in the San Diego Old Town State Historic Park in 2005.

The 'ewaa cultural project illustrates the Southern California Native PRE-CONTACT PERIOD architecture alongside the historic park's adobe buildings of the MEXICAN PERIOD, and wooden structures of the AMERICAN PERIOD for a look back in time to early San Diego in the 1820-1830-1840-1850-1860-1870 time period, 1821-1872.

Fausto Diaz, Kumeyaay, is video taped and photographed planning, cutting the willow branches and tules (cattails) with a machete, framing the house, thatching its sides and roof, and trimming it out for the Old Town cultural display on the park's Alvarado family property next to the Shumup Ko Hup California Indian store.

OLD TOWN SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL YOUTUBE DOCUMENTARY

Kosa'aay is of great importance to American history because it is where the Kumeyaay first fought back against the subjugation of New Spain. Secondarily, this Indian village site is the birthplace of Historic California. For these reasons we must protect, enshrine, and interpret this irreplaceable cornerstone of America.

Geoffrey Mogilner www.cosoy.org, "We have focused some of the history and added 18th Century music in our YouTube video. Our goal is to promote organizational endorsements of the Kosa'aay regional Circulation Proposal and send the endorsements to the City of San Diego and to SANDAG. We want them to plan circulation improvements around rather than through Kosa'aay."

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... DOWNLOAD PDF.

SEVEN CITIES OF GOLD

The KUMEYAAY.INFO ewaa movie references the 1955 movie "Seven Cities of Gold," by Luis Carvacho, a California historical drama about Portola's 1769 land exploration to the Kumeyaay tribal Indian village of Kosaay or Cosoy, (present day Old Town San Diego). The Portola expedition and the efforts of Father Junipero Serra were to establish Spanish missions and good relations with the local Kumeyaay Indians to gain their support in search of the fabled wealthy cities of gold.

The narration notes that Portola saw hundreds of Kumeyaay 'ewaas in the Cosoy Kosaay Indian village upon his arrival in 1769. The 'ewaas were recreated in the movie and resemble this basic design.

Shumup Ko Hup sponsored the location audio-visual movie production, and KUMEYAAY.INFO produced the short film in digital studio facilities in San Diego with Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro iDVD software.

THIS SHORT MOVIE IS ONE OF A SERIES OF NATIVE AMERICAN DOCUMENTARIES PICTURES PHOTOS MOVIES about the Yuman and Shoshonean California Indians of North America, southwest United States, Southern California, southwestern Arizona and northern Baja California, Mexico.

Other Online California Indian Movies:

KI Kumeyaay Indian MOVIES kumeyaay.info
Native American Kumeyaay Bird Singing, Equestrian Bird Dancing, Powwow, Pictorial, PSA

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