MANUELA AGUIAR Kumeyaay Historic Kumeyaay Family Photos Series
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KUMEYAAY INDIAN HISTORICIAL PICTURE SERIES 1990s

This multimedia presentation is from a cultural movie project featuring Indigenous language speakers, storytellers, singers and dancers of northern Baja California, Mexico. Has Yuman language translations PaiPai, Spanish, English.

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Native Americans of northern Baja California, Mexico, Pai Pai, Kumeyaay, Kiliwa, Native speakers, dancers, storytellers like Benito Peralta, Kumeyaay, and Alvino Siva, Cahuilla, at the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum, Southern California, circa 1994.

BAJA SPEAKERS:

Gloria Castañeda, Kumeyaay
Maria Emes, Kumeyaay (farewell song)
Juan Alvañez, Pai-Pai (story, singing)
Margarita Castro, Pai-Pai
Juan Aguiar, Kumeyaay
Josefina Ochurte, Kiliwa/Pai-Pai
Inocencia Gonzalez, Cocopah
Juan Bernardo Aldama, Kumeyaay
Benito Peralta, Pai-Pai (PaiPai-Spanish translator)
Manuela Aguiar, Kumeyaay/PaiPai
Alvino Siva, Cahuilla (guest bird singer storyteller)

TRANSLATOR:

Mike Wilken

VIDEOGRAPHER:

Jean Baptiste

Video begins with a Native American story spoken in Pai Pai language,and bird singing, about the origin of the first Kumeyaay Yuman style grass hut, translated into Mexican Spanish, and USA English in front of live audience.

Movie includes an honoring song for the elders by Alvino Siva, Cahuilla Indian, a well known bird singer and storyteller.

Audio visual recording ends with a Native American farewell song and dance by Maria Emes, Kumeyaay.

THIS MOVIE IS ONE OF A SERIES OF NATIVE AMERICAN DOCUMENTARIES PICTURES PHOTOS MOVIES on the Kumeyaay Indian communities of San Antonio Necua, San Jose de la Zorra, Santa Catarina, Baja California, Mexico, Kumiai Indino

Digital restorations and design by Gary G. Ballard, San Diego