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NATIVE AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY MOVIEThis Native American documentary video shorts project requires BROADBAND (cable/DSL) to play the 100 MB .mov Quicktime movie. NOTE: The waa movie is no longer available on the internet. Please contact Gary Ballard for DVDs. EWAA KICHA Native American House
A Native American Indian from San Diego and Orange County is filmed planning, gathering willow and tules, and building a Luiseño "kicha" or Diegueño-Kumeyaay '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 Southern California Native 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. SEVEN CITIES OF GOLDThe movie references the 1955 movie "Seven Cities of Gold," by Luis Carvacho, a California historical drama about Portola's 1769 land exploration to the 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. This Native movie is approximately 20 minutes, a 106 megabyte .mov file! Other Online California Indian Movies: |
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NATIVE AMERICAN hut shelter house home of the Kumeyaay Diegueno Luiseno Juaneno 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, mission baskets.
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