CALIFORNIA INDIAN ARTIFACTS
WELCOME to the Indigenous Peoples of California Artifacts Museum of photographic exhibits featuring historic Native American Indian relics, artifacts of Southern California Indian tribes of North America, northwest Baja California, Mexico, southwest USA, including greater San Diego County coastal, mountain, river and desert areas.
The Kumeyaay Information Village project to build an on-line museum picture gallery of rare, old, vintage and Late Prehistoric California cultural artifacts is a difficult project because archeologists, museum curators, pot hunters and tourists have been digging in the ground, scouring the countryside and removing these ancient tribal treasures for more than a century (and in most cases do not allow access to their property).
Long-established, highly-respected museums have been collecting and hoarding these items a long time. They have rooms literally packed full of ancient human bones excavated from burial sites, cultural religious relics, artifacts of the Indigenous peoples -- what you may see on display in their public exhibits is only the tip of their collections.
- "These relics should not be thought of as collectors' items or museum pieces," Western Alliance for Nature founder Larry Wan said. "They represent the connection to (American Indians') ancestry in a sacred and spiritual way."
In addition to weekend and professional collectors who are stripping the Indigenous sites of their cultural history -- the problem multiplies over time when a tourist takes an arrowhead from an Indian site, and when scuba divers scavenge underwater Indigenous sites clean (as highlighted in the following SD Union-Tribune story):
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COASTAL ARTIFACTS:
Protecting Offshore Relics By Chet Barfield July 13, 2005 From a coastal bluff at Sunset Cliffs, Sycuan tribal Chairman Danny Tucker sees the shoreline as it was a thousand years ago, extending half a mile or more farther out to sea. Looking out at the rolling waves, he visualizes what's below on the ocean floor, hidden by centuries of rising water and receding land: the grinding stones, arrowheads and countless other artifacts of his Kumeyaay ancestors.... |
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KUMEYAAY CULTURAL REPATRIATION: The ground on which we stand is sacred ground. It is the dust and blood of our ancestors.
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PRESERVATION & RESPECT The Aboriginal California peoples -- "Native American Indians" have occupied Southern California for some 12,000 years.
The ground and coastal waters here hold some 600 generations of lost human graves and the archeological Kumeyaay history of the Pre-Contact (10,000 BC - 1542) Late Prehistoric California and 250-year history of surviving Colonialism (turn of the 21st century).
San Diego County's original first nation people are not limited to the Kumeyaay-Diegueño-Ipai-Tipaay tribe. In fact, there are four surviving Indigenous tribal nations in San Diego whose cultural artifacts are saturated in the local area, including the Kumeyaay, Luiseño, the Cupeño, and the Cahuilla Indians. Further, California currently has the largest living Native American tribal population in the United States, including some 109 federally-recognized California Indian bands with names like Wappo, Vanyume, Tolowa, Yurok, Kawaiisu, Wintu, Achomawi, Chumash, Gabrielino, Hupa, Karuk, Maidu, Pomo, Tubatulabal, Quechan, Serrano, Pai-Pai, Washoe,Yokuts, Serrano, Mojave, Juaneno, Cahto, Shasta, Wailaki, Shasta, Salinan, Koso, Wiyot, Paiute, Shoshoni, Washoe Indians.... AMNESTY Donate to Tribal Cultural Museums Please contact a responsible tribal museum -- like the BARONA CULTURAL CENTER and MUSEUM or AGUA CALIENTE CULTURAL MUSEUM -- for instructions, information and places where and how to donate authenticate turnover sell return give back these irreplaceable historic artifacts, pottery, baskets, stone tools, arrow heads, bows and arrows, war clubs, obsidian blades, clothing, shells, grinding stones, primitive weaponry.... |
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21-GENERATION, 420-YEAR MODEL:
Experts say there are some 2.3 million stone blocks in the Great Pyramid of Giza. Count only the last 21 generations of YOUR Family Tree -- you have exactly 2,097,152 maternal and paternal grandfathers and grandmothers -- nearly enough to complete the Giza model. Count YOUR grandparents back four more generations (500 years to about 1525) -- and you will have exactly 33,554,432 grandparents! Fact check these numbers in our
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