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BALBOA PARK INDIAN CULTURAL FESTIVAL PICTURES
Native American cultural celebration powwow.

YUMAN FAMILY LANGUAGE SUMMIT 2008 PICTURES
Day One, April 29: Yuman bird singers and bird dancers celebrate during the opening ceremony, blessing by Albert "Boxie" Phoenix, Barona elder.

The KUMEYAAY-DIEGUENO NATION
aka Diegueño Indians, the Kumeyaay Nation, is a branch of the Native YUMAN INDIANS of North America, Southern California, southwestern Arizona, and northern Baja California, Mexico. Today's first nations of aboriginal Yuman Native Indians of the greater southwest United States of America USA include:

Kumeyaay aka Kumiai Diegueño Ipai-Tipai Diegueno-Kamia
Cocopah Cucapa Cocopa
Mohave Mojave
Hualapai
Yavapai
Havasupai
Quechan
Maricopa
Paipai Pai Pai
Kiliwa
Cochimi

The Yuman peoples belong to the HOKAN language group of southwest USA.

In 1848
the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo ended the US-Mexican American War and established the current U.S.-Mexico Border through the heart of indigenous Kumeyaay territory, cutting the Kumeyaay Nation into two distinct parts. Today, over 150 years later, the international border remains an effective wall to all but a selected few of the area's southern indigenous Indians....

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Who are yesterday's and today's California Native American peoples?

UNITED STATES
Indians of Southern California Kumeyaay bands or Kumeyaay tribes, sometimes 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 Indians, Kumeyaay tribal governments governances, include the 13 federally-recognized tribes or bands, the thirteen San Diego County Indian reservations official sites of the sovereign Kumeyaay Indian nation:

Campo Kumeyaay Nation aka Campo Band of the Kumeyaay Nation
Sycuan 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
Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians aka Cuyapaipe

BAJA CALIFORNIA Kumiai Nación
Kumeyaay Kumiai Indian communities, tribal Indian villages of northwest Mexico include:

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

NATIVE NATIONS 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 Indians
Luiseno Luiseño Indians

IN FACT
California has the second largest Native American population in the United States, including 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. Here is a complete index listing guide to all San Diego County Indian casinos, resorts, hotels, golf courses and their official gambling websites, including successful Kumeyaay-owned businesses:

Barona Valley Ranch, aka Barona Casino
Casino Pauma, aka Pauma Casino
Golden Acorn Casino
Harrah's Rincon Casino and Resort
Jamul Casino (in planning stage)
La Posta Casino
Pala Casino Spa and Resort,
Santa Ysabele Resort and Casino
Sycuan Resort and Casino, aka Sycuan Casino
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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