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UNITED STATES KUMEYAAY TRIBE

The Kumeyaay Tribe of Southern California today consist of 13 Kumeyaay bands and are commonly referred to as the Mission Indians of Southern California, Mission Indians of San Diego County and Imperial County, California Mission Indians, Southern Diegueno Indians, Ipai-Tipai and Ipay Tipay Indians, Native American Indians of Southern California, Kumeyaay tribal governments sovereign tribal governances, including:

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

BAJA CALIFORNIA Kumiai Nación

Kumeyaay Kumiai Indian communities, tribal Indian villages of northwest B.C. Mexico include extensive professional photojournalistic TRIBAL DOCUMENTARIES:

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

Citlalli Salazar, Kumiai, a young 18-year-old Native girl models an antique Southern California Indian basket hat (probably desert Cahuilla art) — her tribal village, San Jose de la Zorra, landscape is pictured in background, a rare old polychrome Kumeyaay clay pot is to right.

KUMIAI DE BAJA CALIF MEXICO en Español Kumiais una cultura en riesgo de extinsión, Acerca de los indigenas Kumiai, Geografia, Sistema Politico, Origenes lingüisticos, Programas de Trabajo, Consejo, Acerca de los indigenas Kumiai, Gobernadora Kumiai, Origenes lingüisticos — y mucho mas...

INDIGENOUS INDIANS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY

There are four surviving aboriginal Native American Indian nations still living in San Diego County at the turn of the 21st Century:

Cahuilla Indians
Cupeno Cupeño Indians
Kumeyaay-Diegueño-Ipay-Tipay Indians
Luiseno Luiseño Indians

IN FACT:
California has the second largest Native American population in the United States, including some 108 federally-recognized Indian tribes — desert, mountain, inland, valley, coastal, river tribes.

And with 18 California Indian reservations, San Diego County has more Native American Indian reservations than any other county in the United States with some 17,000 tribal members.

CALIFORNIA INDIAN GAMBLING CASINOS

Here is a COMPLETE INDEX LISTING GUIDE to all the best San Diego County Indian casinos, resorts, hotels, restaurants, golf courses and their official gambling websites, including successful Kumeyaay-owned businesses:

Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa, golf
Barona Valley Ranch, aka Barona Casino, golf
Casino Pauma, aka Pauma Casino
Golden Acorn Casino
Harrah's Rincon Casino and Resort
Jamul Casino (in planning stage)
La Posta Casino
Morongo Resort Spa, golf
Pala Casino Spa and Resort
Santa Ysabel Resort and Casino
Soboba Casino, Country Club at Soboba Springs, golfing
Sycuan Resort and Casino, aka Sycuan Casino, golf
Valley View Casino
Viejas Casino

SHOSHONEAN INDIANS
are another major language group of California tribes in Southern CA.
The aboriginal Alta California Shoshonean or Shoshone tribes include:

Luiseño Luiseno-Kawia
Juaneño Juaneno
Cahuilla
Gabrielino
Chemehuevi
Serrano

The Southern California Indian reservations of the Shoshonean bands include:

La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians
Pala Band of Mission Indians
Rincon San Luiseno Band of Mission Indians,
aka Rincon Nation of Luiseño Indians
Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians
Pauma Yuima Band of Mission Indians
Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla Cupeño Indians
Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians
San Manuel Band of Mission Indians
Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians

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