KUMIAI DANCERS

Gloria Castañeda Silva, Kumiai (2nd from left), of San Jose de la Zorra, represented her Kumiai band and danced traditional dances with her family and friends at the event.

Gloria Castañeda is the daughter of Kumeyaay elder Celia Silva Espinoza, and both Native American women are famous Indian basket weavers in Southern California, are both are fluent in their Kumeyaay language and both are active in their tribal community on both sides of the US-Mexico border.

Doña Gloria Castañeda is an indigenous ethnobotanist consultant featured in Michael Alan Wilken's 2012 SDSU Anthropology Master of Arts Thesis.

Yuman Language Event on Video Translated real time audio: Paipai, Cucapá, Mexican Spanish, Cahuilla, English. Cultural Language Event, c.1994, Santa Barbara Natural History Museum. Features indigenous speakers, storytellers and dancers of Norte de Baja California, Mexico, and Southern California, USA.

BAJA SPEAKERS Pictured (roughly l-r):

Gloria Castañeda, Kumiai
Maria Emes, Kumeyaay (farewell song)
Juan Alvañez, Pai-Pai (story, singing)
Margarita Castro, Pai-Pai
Juan Aguiar, Kumiai
Josefina Ochurte, Kiliwa-PaiPai
Juan Bernardo Aldama, Kumiai
Benito Peralta, Pai-Pai (PaiPai-Spanish translator)
Alvino Siva, Cahuilla (guest bird singer storyteller)
Inocencia Gonzalez, Cucapá
Manuela Aguiar, Kumiai-PaiPai

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