Kumeyaay Corner

Learn about Willows in San Diego County

The partnership, signed this month, will grant guaranteed transfer eligibility to Kumeyaay Community College students interested in completing four-year degrees at SDSU. Read more here.  

Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians The Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians, one of the remaining 12 bands of the Kumeyaay Indian Nation, resides on a 1,600-acre reservation in the Viejas Valley, east of the community of Alpine in San Diego County, California. The Viejas Band is recognized as a sovereign Read more…

Kumeyaay History in Southern California & the Struggle to Protect Sacred Indian Burial Sites with Professor Ross Frank.

Kumeyaay.com has a great article called “Big Things from San Diegos Indigenous Nations” on the movers and shakers in San Diego’s indigenous community featuring: Rincon tribal member Ruth-Ann Thorn in the art world plus her television travel show entitled This is Indian Country. Ethan Banegas and the San Diego History Read more…

Miss Kumeyaay Nation Autumn Brown (2015-2016) demonstrates how to make shawii, or acorn mush.

A story of cultural persistence that centers the past, present and future relationship Kumeyaay people have to the intertidal zone. We follow Dr. Stan Rodriguez, President of Kumeyaay Community College, as he teaches about traditional ecological knowledge and the cultural and spiritual connection the Kumeyaay have to the land-sea interface.

The film is now showing at the Barona Cultural Center & Museum in Lakeside. Come learn about the Creation Story of the Kumeyaay people with this 20 min. multi-sensory film experience.   ADMISSION TO BARONA CULTURAL CENTER & MUSEUM IS FREE!. Learn more at Barona Museum.

San Diego City College will offer Native American and Indigenous Studies courses for the first time in its nearly 110-year history. The program is being developed by former historic preservation officer and long-time Indian law professor John Bathke. Read the article here.