JANE DUMAS Kumeyaay Elder

Jane Dumas Photo Album Family Scrapbook:
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The left picture was taken in Balboa Park, 2002, during a Native American traditional gathering and honoring ceremony. Native American men pictured (l-r) Hank Murphy (Sycuan Kumeyaay), Roy Cook (Mazopiye Wichasha Opata Osage), in blue shirt Ral Christman (Viejas Kumeyaay), Kenneth Meza (Jamul Kumeyaay).

The left portrait of Jane Dumas was photographed by Dugan Aguilar in 2002.

Jane Dumas' great grandfather was Jose Manuel Haatam, tribal leader of the last Kumeyaay band that lived in the present-day Balboa Park area.

Jane Dumas is one of the last remaining fluent speakers of the Kumeyaay language in San Diego County who learned to speak Kumeyaay as her first language. Jane Dumas possesses a great knowledge of local Indigenous plants and their aboriginal medicinal uses, and the traditional Kumeyaay culture in San Diego.