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“FIRST FOOTSTEPS”; Exhibit Recognizes Forgotten Chapter in History: Coronado’s First Inhabitants, The Coastal Kumeyaay Indians

Coronado Museum of History & Art
Before the blue arching bridge across the bay, before the Navy on North Island, and even before the Hotel del Coronado, there was just the land and the sea. And on this land lived a society of Kumeyaay Indians, peaceful by nature, but fierce hunters and providers.
The Coronado Museum of [...]

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This Web site is dedicated to the promotion and preservation of the Kumeyaay culture. Kumeyaay.com tells the story from the Kumeyaay perspective, and is the premiere source for Kumeyaay Indian information.
Who are the Kumeyaay?
The Kumeyaay Nation extends from San Diego and Imperial Counties in California to 60 miles south of the Mexican border. The Kumeyaay [...]

AUKA Communication from the Native Peoples of Baja California; One of the most important programs is the Kumeyaay Border Task Force

by Steve Dryden
The Kumeyaay Nation in San Diego County has some great programs that help native people in San Diego and Baja California. One of the most important programs is the Kumeyaay Border Task Force under the leadership of executive director Louis Guassac. This innovation program allows members of the Baja California Kumiai Nation to [...]

BIG PLANS, BIG DREAMS: Dorothy Ramon Learning Center acquires building, land in Banning

Ernest H. Siva, Dorothy Ramon Learning Center President
Dorothy Ramon Learning Center, Inc., now has a building and adjacent lots in the heart of downtown Banning’s new Arts District. Here, the Learning Center and its publishing arm, Ushkana Press, will offer nonprofit programs and publications that save and share Southern California’s American Indian cultures, languages, history, [...]

Keeping crime out of our casinos

By Daniel Tucker
The recent successful completion of a multiyear FBI investigation of a nationwide gambling cheating ring is a great example of how tribal, state and federal gaming regulators and law enforcement agencies are working together to ferret out and prosecute criminal elements trying to cheat in tribal casinos. The 19 indictments handed down by [...]

Course develops new Kumeyaay speakers

By Leonel Sanchez, STAFF WRITER
Stan Rodriguez led a review session in his Kumeyaay language class last month at Kumeyaay Community College on the Sycuan reservation.
EDUARDO CONTRERAS / Union-Tribune
Stan Rodriguez begins his class with a prayer in the ancient language of the Kumeyaay Nation.
As a bowl of burning sage passes hands, Rodriguez prays that his students [...]

American Indian People are Special

By Roy Cook
Whom are we?
Sycuan Inter-Tribal Vocational Rehabilitation, SITVR, is a San Diego County, “Employment Outcome” program for an underserved Indian population.