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MULTIMEDIA: California Indians

RESEARCH
KUMEYAAY MUSEUMS-RESEARCH
Active fun things to do in San Diego to learn about Kumeyaay Indians, trace your tribal bloodlines, Genealogy portal, Kumeyaay artifacts, vintage historical photos pictures, relics history language, and cultures of Southern California Native American local Indigenous tribes.

CREATIVE INDIAN
KUMEYAAY ETHNOGRAPHIC ARTS
Native American Indian Art Artists photographs, biographies, pictures, movies -- modern and traditional arts and crafts, entertainment -- including Native American online art galleries featuring creative Native illustrators, painters, sculptures, musicians, photography, writers, storytellers, traditional storytelling, Southern California indigenous plants, artifacts and history.

STORYTELLING
STORYTELLERS
featuring Sam Brown's famous Kumeyaay stories of the Brown-Curo family of Barona and Viejas. Includes a 1960s audio recording of a Kumeyaay elder woman storyteller speaking Kumeyaay, and links to many Native American stories, the legends anecdotes fables tales myths mythology of the California Native American Indians of North America.

STORYTELLING
FIESTA de KUMIAIS
San Antonio Necua documentary movie, extensive bird singing dancing video DVD.

STORYTELLING
PAIPAI GIRLS
Santa Catarina ejido, Baja California, Mexico. Mama sat the girls down and the light beamed right across their faces -- perfectly -- 30 seconds later the shadow was in their faces and ruined the lighting.

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INDIGENOUS PLANTS
professional pictures gallery of the plants and herbs used by indigenous Native American California Indian tribes of southwestern and Southern California, Imperial County, including northern California and north west Baja California, Mexico Indians. Kumeyaay Native plant guide features California white sage used in ceremony, yucca used for fiber and lotions, buckwheat used for medicinal teas, natural juncus uses for California Indian basketweaving.

Kumeyaay Documentaries
21ST CENTURY MULTIMEDIA DOCUMENTARIES, including housing, ethnographic art, indigenous tribal communities of Baja CA, Mexico. Los indios indígenas de las fotos documentales de la forma de vida del photojournalism de México representan películas:

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CLAY POTTERY
features the modern California Indian Kumeyaay Pai Pai pottery art of the Yuman Indians of Southern California, Arizona, Mexico.

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PIT-FIRING YUMAN POTTERY
The Indigenous tribes of California have been pit firing ceramic pottery ollas in the Southern California and northern Mexico area for THOUSANDS of years using the pit-fire method pictured in these photographs. Two-minute camera exposure on tripod using only full moon for light.

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CLAY POTTERY
by Manuela Aguiar, Santa Catarina, 2005.

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FEMALE YONI FERTILITY SCULPTURE
perhaps no ancient artifact weathers the passage of time more convincingly that exposed rock -- pictured an old Yoni sculpture at Indian Hill, Anza Borrego, California in 2004. Notice there is a lot of weathered dark paint around the carving.

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CALIFORNIA INDIAN BASKETS
Large antique artifacts relics and contemporary California Indian basket so-called mission baskets sections featuring private historical basket collections.

STORYTELLING
KUMIAI CEMETERY
San Jose de la Zorra documentary, Eva Salazar, Kumiai, stands at the grave of her grandmother -- Loved and Remembered.

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PERSONAL NOTES FROM A YOUNG CUCAPA WOMAN
Amparo gives recollections of growing up in the Wi Shpa or Eagle Mountain area of the Cucapá Indian village of El Mayor, Baja California, Mexico, Colorado River Delta tribal area.

Art Gallery
CALIFORNIA INDIAN ART GALLERY

INDIGENOUS CALIFORNIA INDIAN ARTISTS
ARTISTS DIRECTORY
A-Z 60 Indigenous artist.


KUMEYAAY HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS
private family albums old historic vintage photographs digitally restored dated captioned.

HISTORICAL INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOLS RESEARCH
HISTORICAL RESEARCH WEB PORTAL American Indian Schools, circa 1850-2011
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"Kill the Indian, save the man," Capt. Richard Henry Pratt, circa 1880,Founder and long-time Superintendent of the Carlisle Indian school system.


KUMEYAAY PICTURES FOR KIDS Series

KUMEYAAY NATION Museum Photos
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
"Our Lives" KUMEYAAY NATION photos documentation, includes pictures of the Smithsonian's Kumeyaay Nation exhibits featuring the Campo Band of Kumeyaay Indians and their Golden Acorn Casino enterprise, photographed documented.

MAP OF KUMEYAAY CASINOS
SAN DIEGO CASINOS MAP
high-resolution map locator and in-depth Indian casino study and entertainment guides.


KUMEYAAY BANDS OF U.S. AND MEXICO
DOWNLOAD free map included for printing.

Kumeyaay map lists the 13 federally-recognized Kumeyaay Indian reservations locations in Southern California.

Also, the four Kumiai ejidos (tribal community ranches) of Baja California Norte located on the Mexico-U.S. border region.

If you are in San Diego County -- you are in Indian Country!

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TRIBES GUIDE MAPS
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RESERVATIONS

TRIBAL COMMUNITY RESOURCES

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TRIBAL COMMUNITY PORTAL Meet your community members....

INTER-TRIBAL SOCIAL SERVICES Crisis hotlines, tribal TANF, employment, drugs and alcohol, health and wellness....

FACEBOOK

LOS COYOTES NEWSMAKER www.kumeyaay.info
LOS COYOTES IN THE NEWS:
From US government military and law enforcement contracts to off-reservation casino plans with the City of Barstow, the Los Coyotes band is in the news...beautiful tribal landscape pano photography.

TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY IN AMERICA
TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY GUIDE
— This California Indian Education study guide explores the history of tribal law and home rule in America, including the U.S. Constitution and key U.S. Supreme Court rulings that provide legal framework for tribal sovereignty in America.

GOLDEN NUGGETS COLLECTION
CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH 1848-1855
some 300,000 immigrants poured into California during this seven-year period -- for the gold...


PROFESSIONAL POW WOW PHOTOGRAPHY

California Indian Music
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSIC
Kumeyaay Bird Singing, gourd rattle photos, original movie videos, audio recordings.

Weaponry
INDIGENOUS CALIFORNIA INDIAN WEAPONRY
, Native American prehistoric weaponry of the Southern California Indigenous Yuman peoples.

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NATIVE AMERICAN ROCK ART SERIES
ancient pictographs petroglyphs cave art pictures rock sculptures of the Yuman Indigenous peoples of California pictrographs.


EARTH PIGMENTS and PAINT of the CALIFORNIA INDIANS Meaning and Technology
by Paul D. Campbell, Book Review.


CALIFORNIA INDIAN TRIBAL FACE PAINT
Fully-researched book includes all facets of Native California pigments and paint, including physical, social, spiritual in great detail, by Paul D. Campbell.


CALIFORNIA INDIAN BOWS & ARROWS
features extensive field and museum research by Paul D. Campbell, Book Review.


SURVIVAL SKILLS OF NATIVE CALIFORNIA
by Paul D. Campbell, 1st and 2nd edition covers pictured.

Historical Maps
MAPS of KUMEYAAY HISTORY 1769 - 2005

Historical Maps
50 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Our FAQ covers many areas about Native American Indian Indigenous tribe of North America -- Indian Country -- writing it was a great learning experience.


EWAA KICHA PROJECT
a special multimedia cultural project in collaboration with the Old Town San Diego State Historic Park.


OLD TOWN FIESTA 2005
San Diego State Historic Park.


JANE DUMAS FAMILY ALBUM
three generations of Kumeyaay women, parents, grandparents, sisters, and children, Jamual Indian Reservation Peon games, church.


PLAY PEON
1960s Jane Dumas' mother, Isabel and father, Amrosio Thing, play Kumeyaay game "Peon" into the night. Sam Brown (Viejas) and Tony Pinto (Ewiiaapaayp) also identified.


WISHPA MOUNTAIN
Cucapá territority, El Mayor Colorado River Delta Region Baja California, Mexico, with personal notes from a young Cocopah woman.


LARGE FORMAT POSTERS for sale


MISSION INDIAN FEDERATION RESTORATION & POSTER
up to 24 feet (in three 8-foot sections) -- 12 feet in one print, framing and installation available.


MIF POSTER
another spin, easy 4-foot print.

OPERATION GERONIMO
Geronimo Study Resource
, a collection of professionally restored photographs, extended captions, and historical writings.

Native American Dolls
KUMEYAAY DOLLS
Indigenous California Indians Dolls of Diegueño, Kumeyaay, Quechan...


MUSEUM ARTIFACTS


YUMAN FAMILY LANGUAGE SUMMIT
Barona Indian Reservation, 2008

Please visit the KUMEYAAY RESEARCH DEPARTMENT and the CALIFORNIA INDIANS RESEARCH DEPARTMENT for a gold mine of top research links to the best Native American websites about aboriginal California Native cultures, histories, languages, tribes, reservations, statistics, including directory listing of how to contact the California Indian reservations tribal offices.

Please visit the KUMEYAAY PUBLISHING DEPARTMENT.

Online MOVIES Video Film DVD:



KI Kumeyaay Indian MOVIES kumeyaay.info
variety of free Native American MOVIES FILMS VIDEOS original Native American theme multimedia content online including PSA pictorial California Indian Native singing Indian powwow dancing conference historical speech elderberry flute music playing traditional Kumeyaay fiesta Kumiai Indino documental pelicula.

California Indian BOOKS:

Native American Library BOOKS
BOOKS NATIVE AMERICAN CALIFORNIA INDIAN LIBRARY
A wide variety of books on the aboriginal Native American Indians indigenous to the Southern California, southwestern Arizona, and northwest Baja California, Mexico indigenous tribes of North America. Includes top 10 best books written about the Diegueno Kumeyaay Nation.

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KUMEYAAY RESEARCH On-Line Resources:

• Virtual Museum kumeyaay.com
Read about each Kumeyaay artifact and discover its significance to the Kumeyaay People. Museums about Kumeyaay Indians artifacts to discover their significance to the Kumeyaay People.

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology WEBSITE hearstmuseum.berkley.edu:

The Early Ethnography of the Kumeyaay reprints the pioneering research of three anthropologists of the early part of the 20th century - Thomas T. Waterman, Leslie Spier, and Edward W. Gifford.

• University of San Diego USD Library Resources Related to Native American Issues WEBSITE sandiego.edu. Library of Congress, how to do a SALLY search that works:

USD's online library catalog contains records for every Native American book, microfiche, movie, or CD-ROM on campus.

SALLY is the starting point for research on Native American languages, culture, history, anthropology, census data, literature, religions, and statistics.

The legal status of Native Americans and the policies and laws applied by the United States government to Native American citizens are exhaustively covered and every treaty between the Indian Nations and the United States can be found at USD's Legal Research Center.

Library of Congress, how to do a SALLY search:

• Records for every Native American book, microfiche, movie, or CD-ROM on campus.

• Research on Native American languages, culture, history, anthropology, census data, literature, religions, and statistics.

See the KUMEYAAY.INFO San Diego Museums page for information on:

Historical Kumeyaay artifacts historical San Diego Native American artifacts.

Archives of major collections of organized historical Kumeyaay Indians historical photos pictures.

Major large collections and exhibitions of historical Kumeyaay artifacts, California Native American artifacts.

Large cataloged historical Kumeyaay historical photographic collections archives, such as the Edward Harvey Davis Photo Gallery Pictures PHOTOS.

Active fun things to do in San Diego Southern California to learn about the Kumeyaay Indigenous peoples of San Diego County.

Nature Walks, guided tours through a variety of terrains to learn about Indian uses for plants in this area rich in Kumeyaay history.

Shapes and Uses of California Indian Basketry.

YUMAN INDIAN TRIBE HISTORY accessgenealogy.com:

  • YUMAN Family -- An important linguistic family whose tribes before being gathered on reservations occupied an extensive territory in the extreme south west portion of the United States and north Lower California, including much of the valley of Colorado River, the lower valley of the Gila, and all of extreme south California....

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MARICOPA INDIAN TRIBE HISTORY accessgenealogy.com:

  • MARICOPA -- An important Yuman tribe which since early in the 19th century has lived with and below the Pima and from about lat. 35° to the mouth of Rio Gila, south Arizona. In 1775, according to Garcés, their rancherias extended about 40 miles along the Gila from about the month of the Hassayampa to the Aguas Calientes, although Garcés adds that "some of them are found farther down river." They call themselves Pipatsje, 'people,' Maricopa being their Pima name....

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COCOPA INDIAN TRIBE HISTORY accessgenealogy.com:

  • COCOPA (ko'-ko-pa). A division of the Yuman family which in 1604-05 lived in nine rancherias on the Rio Colorado, five leagues above its mouth...According to Heintzelman, in 1856, the tribe was formerly strong in numbers and could muster 300 warriors; their total number was estimated by Fray Francisco Garcés in 1775-76 at 3,000, but there are now only 800 in north Lower California, in the valley of the Rio Colorado. The Cocopa were reputed to be less hostile than the Yuma or the Mohave, who frequently raided their villages; nevertheless they were sufficiently war-like to retaliate when necessary....

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COCHIMI INDIAN TRIBE HISTORY accessgenealogy.com:

  • COCHIMI (ko-chi-mi') -- A term originally used to designate a Yuman dialect supposed to have been spoken from about lat. 26° to the north limit of Lower California.... The following are classed as Cochimi tribes or rancherias: Adac, Afegua, Aggavacaamanc, Amalgua, Amaniini, Ametzilhacaamanc, Anchu, Avolabac, Caamancijup,Caddehi,Cadecuijtnipa, Cadegomo, Cadeudebet, Cahelca, Cahelejyu, Cahelenthil, Cahehmet, Camancnaccooya, Camanocacaamano, Cunitcacahel, Eguiannacahel, Gabacamanini, Gamacaamanc, Gamacaamancxa, Hualimea, Idelabuu, Idelibinaga, Ika, Jetti, Laimon, Liggige, Menchu, Mokaskel, Paviye, Paya, Piacaamanc, Piagadme, San Athanasio, San Benito de Aruy, San Francisco Borja, San Ignacio, San José de Comondu, San Juan, San Miguel, San Sabas, Santa Aguida, Santa Lucia, Santa Maria, Santa Marta, Santa Monica, Santa Nynfa, San Pedro y San Pablo, Santisima Trinidad, Tahuagabacahel, Temedegua, Uacazil, Vaba, Vabacahel, Vajademin, Vazacahel, Vinatacot....

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CALIFORNIA INDIAN TRIBE HISTORY accessgenealogy.com:

  • CAJUENCHE -- A Yuman tribe speaking the Cocopa dialect and residing in 1775–76 on the east bank of the Rio Colorado below the mouth of the Gila, next to the Quigyuma...and into central south California, about lat. 33° 08', where they met the Comeya. At the date named the Cajuenche are said to have numbered 3,000 and to have been enemies of the Cocopa (Garcés, Diary, 443, 1900). Of the disappearance of the tribe practically nothing is known, but if they are identical with the Cawina, or Quo-kima....

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