From KPBS “Port of Entry” Ojeda and Melendrez are members of the Kumeyaay community in San José de la Zorra, Baja California, which is located roughly an hour north of Ensenada and seven miles from Ejido El Porvenir. The journey from the Tijuana border to this location takes approximately three Read more
San Diego City College invites everyone to their exhibit reception and events for our Kumeyaay Design Exhibit over the next two months. All events are free and all workshops are drop-in style where the Kumeyaay artists are making and good conversations can happen. In conjunction with the San Diego and Read more
Learn about Willows in San Diego County
Watch this video on a brief history of the Campo Kumeyaay and the history of the Kumeyaay people post-contact.
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.