Kumeyaay that escaped from the Missions sometimes ended way up in Miwok territory where they were adopted into the tribes. I am Southern Sierra Miwok(Yosemite) and when my little boy died years ago, a Kumeyaay man, Bear Rivera, did the Traditional service for us and told me that among his band of Kumeyaay, they still remember how my people took them in. So thank you my Native kin from the south!.
I am wondering which tribes were guardians of Sequoia Park area and the Giant groves of trees...Miwok? My parents met there and took me there as a child and that land is forever sacred to me....The fires have recently caused some evacuations in the area.
This people are extintion all are mixed or foreing no have children poor anymore 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ They are only mixed wanting to be something they are not, nor do they speak the language and they speak English
@michael boultinghouse you are a mixed now white practicaly your culture is white... native is a people who have poor blood or one of the parents is native
In San Diego there should be mandatory field trips for kids in history or social studies to take a trip to learn about native Kumeyaay life and culture. I think it would incite in them a respect in interest in native history and their ways of life. Thank you so much for making this documentary. I loved it.
@ruben champollion What the fuck is your issue dude? My comment wasn't even posted recently? Don't take your anger out on people who have nothing to do with your bitch ass whining. It's people like you that are the problem. I was talking about my school experience in the fucking 90s get the fuck off me.
I was born in South Africa. Came of age in Australia. Now I live in San Diego. It's so important to learn about the people who were here before us. I very much appreciate this documentary. So too does my wife who is kumeyaay!
Few cultures in the history of this planet were bigger murderers, rapists, thieves and savages then the Indians were against neighboring tribes. They met their match when the Europeans arrived. NOTHING was stolen from the Indians, they were CONQUERED. Conquered just like every single piece of land on earth has been at some point. It is how the world works and how it worked for the Indians as well. Today, they are a worthless culture. They contribute nothing....
@@Fortdirt1 Although we are all related the way we see it, our direct ancestors were the Yuman Cupenos ( kupa ) which descended from Hopi but! We are connected to Yaqui, Utes, Navajo ( dine ), Apache, and Athabaskan people. The Great South West! My great grandfather was Jose Miramontes Salazar from Guamuchil Sinaloa, Mexico. His people were Cahitan Yaqui yeomen but his wife Ana Ybarra was Cochimi from Guadalupe, Ensenada B.c.s. My great grandfather is a direct relative to Emilio Zapata Salazar who was Yaqui indio. My mother's side were Naso Teribe Tikos from Costa Rica & while her grandfathers were Tarahumara and Chichimeca decent
The history of the Indigenous people is so heartbreaking, so full of tragedies, death and suffering. There needs to be truth in history that is taught in schools. But I am so happy to see their culture and their way of life coming back. Awesome video.
@The history of every race and nation is full of tragedy, death and suffering. There is nothing special about these folks. My own Celtic ancestors once ruled Europe from Hesse to Northern Italy but were driven from their lands until pushed into the last corners of the continent, Wales, Ireland and Scotland. Wales was almost repopulate by the Anglo Saxons in the early 1800 which used deportation to send my predecessors to the penal colony of Australia. And the suffering of a small tribe over a short time us quite trivial compared to the millennia of horror faced by the Armenians, Jews and Kurds. What happened to the Poles during the 1930s and 40s dwarfs the sorrows of any one American Indian tribe. Last but not least, there is simply no moral superiority that attaches to a people just because they got their asses kicked in a war. The Nazis got obliterated by barbarian hordes and fire from the skies in Biblical fashion, but they certainly deserve no sympathy, now do they?
Please stop using terms like "Indian, Indegenous, Native". We are Innuet, Apache, Aztec, Maya, Inca. Nobody ever says "Indigenous Irish" or "Native Gaul"
@@johnwilkes4671 what an idiot. Nobody cares about euro history here. It is an Rxpose of these beautiful Civilizations. You justify with your rant why the documentary MUST BE MADE😉😉
Your people??? By that do you mean your race?? When I think of "my people", I think of Americans as a whole. " American" is a people that includes every race and creed. But I am guessing that your definition of "my people" is much narrower and racial in nature.
I'm fascinated by the native Americans that are here in Socal. I'm trying to learn as much as I can & this was one of the best documentaries I've seen.
Iam a native Sequioa California Indian....California earth has kept me alive...I have cultivated the land and lived of the northern California coast living off fish and shellfish oysters abalone I have fished the brooks and rivers of California the north Eel river to Russian to SanFransico Bay catching crabs and fish and oysters...I can tell many stories of California...I live amoung my family the Sequoias....I have eaten the wild boar and deer of the Humbolt County Sonoma County...the deer taught me how to forrest vegetation...I picked the wild apples and blackberries in the Redwood forest...I made acorn Flatbread
Its a shame that we didn't learn about the Kumeyaay at school . Specially here in San Diego. Or go on field trips and to walk these lands that have so much history and culture. This is what really matters when youre a young adult growing up. at least to me. how can i learn more?
I know, right? Thankfully, my mother served as a caretaker for one of the retired tribal members and our last memory before their passing, they invited her and me to the Pow Wow. It's a precious experience I will never forget. I miss them.
Really?? I'm curious, when did you graduate high school? I was in public school majority of the 90s and we had plenty of field trips and classes learning about them.
@@elliedavalostarango Oh my gosh I'm sorry... I didn't mean for my comment to come off as rude or anything! I'm really sorry if it did... I was honestly just curious... I'm so sorry... I was just sharing my experience as well. I apologize. I asked what year you graduated because I was curious if maybe things have changed since I went to school... Again I'm really sorry if I offended you.
I was born in Colombia, my DNA test tells me my ancient origins are Mayan, Aztec, North American native, and Inca. But it says my closest modern relatives are the Kumeyaay. My ancestors must have travelled a hell of a long way all the way from North America to South America. Interesting documentary!
@@wealthbymind mytrueancestry. This is specific for ancient populations though. Ive got spanish, greek, french, italian, scottish and irish too but that is another test. If you take a test like familytreedna you can upload your raw data to MTA.
Hence why Maiz, Yucca, Avocado native to my Maya Ancestors spread throughout the Land Mass. The notion the Nomadic people were limited geographically is a huuuuuge mistake as your DNA proves😉😉
BULLSHIT!!! Nobody anywhere ever owned owns any land, we they just were living there, period. All these unnecessary problems come from assuming such a notion. Plus they were there for 10,000 years? Well, there’s a new kid in town & he’s only been around briefly? Uh, yeah, changing of the guard. The Wild Kingdom
My respects to the original people of this part of our world, I have known kumeyaay from neji, and they are good people. Although modern life has altered and affected their traditions, I hope our creator will help them live in peace and stay united, together they can keep their traditions alive.
I live in escondido california which is in San Diego County and there is a bunch of artifacts in my trailer park. The native tribe that used to live where I live at are the ipai tribe from the kummeyaay tribe. I don't live on a reservation but there are so many artifacts. I found a arrowhead once and I found a milling station in my backyard. I found the milling station when I was in my backyard and I found it buried in brush. I searched it up on Google and it said it was where the native americans grinded stuff at. Told my friends and my other friend found an arrowhead in his yard. Crazy how I don't live on a reservation but there is still artifacts.
Y B Haawka, there’s a website called learniipayaa.weebly.com, there’s a dictionary(called the Dictionary of Mesa Grande Diegueño), a textbook called Let’s Talk ‘Iipay Aa, and a grammar called a Grammar of Mesa Grande Diegueño. Hope that helps if you want to speak Kumeyaay. Also, these are all in the Northern dialect
I am Southern Sierra Miwok, learned a little of the language from Elders as a child. My Mother and Aunt didn't want to speak it in the 50's, especially in school even though there were several Miwoks still in Mariposa High. My aunt refused to speak the little she had around her kids until she was like 70. I hear some tribes are re-introducing these languages on Rancherias here in Cali. It's likely too late for us. As for population, I am literally the last of my immediate family, no siblings and my only child died some time ago. One of the reasons my mom and aunt left Mariposa was because, even in what was our historic home in the Mariposa-Yosemite Valley, there were so few of us that all the Native boys were cousins to one degree or the other. That's a MAJOR taboo with us.
Amazing documentary. I was born in Tecate and you reminded me of the food I use to eat. Definitely going to try and teach my kids what I lost. Thank you so much
I was born in San Diego and have lived here my entire life, I’m so grateful for this wonderful video and I deeply appreciate the time and energy it took to create this video…
This was a wonderful film. I thank you profoundly. As a non native, born in California I feel that I was robbed of knowing the roots of California culture. I learned about the Missions and that is all. We learned how "wonderful Father Serra was" that he took in the poor starving indians and saved their souls and gave them jobs. Jeez, what a crock.
loved this documentary. i myself am not kumeyaay, im pan-indian (mainly choctaw). my great grandfather grew up on a reservation in missouri and when he moved out here to california he donated a lot of money and time to help improve and assist reservations out here (rincon and pala mainly) in return he was given a community out here with the kumeyaay after traveling so far from home. although he was not kumeyaay he was treated as one of their own. he ended up becoming a council member. when he passed he was layed to rest at Pala. so i feel a strong connection to the kumeyaay people even if i dont technically have kumeyaay blood. peace and love to all my relations ✌🏼❤
Really excellent presentation. Thank you! I'm a native San Diegan and back in about 1975 a woman on the Los Coyotes IR taught me how to prepare live oak acorns for food, and I did so. The method was somewhat similar to what is shown in this video, but after shelling and grinding a bit (to fine gravel size, like DG) I then put the ground acorns into a woven container and set it into gently flowing water for several hours. That leeched away all the tannin. Then dried, ground some more and then 'boiled and boiled and boiled', as she told me. She said they called it WEWISH. She also joked that it's called wewish 'because we wish we had something better'. I admit that it had very little taste, but I tried various things until I mixed it with some Aunt Jemima pancake mix and made super-delicious pancakes (and no doubt they were much more nutritious than regular pancakes, too)
What an extraordinary documentary! It started out with the usual descriptive history, but unfolded into hands-on visuals, even how-tos of how to chip a flint arrowhead, how a bow and arrow are made, games they played, how to harvest, prepare, and cook the plants native to the areas -- remarkably alive. It was exciting. I'm going to watch it again, right now. Thank you to all those involved in this production. You have brought this part of the world and the time to life!
Owka! Now you must journey west, hope you visit the imperial valley desert museum..always lots going on there.. mission dam, mission de Alcala, MTRP interpretive center, presidio museum, maritime museum San Salvador Ship, cabrillo
I live on Rancho in kumeyaay land, I cherish the grinding stones and artifacts we find on our walks, we recognize you and your history, thank you and may our creator always be with you.
Marina Santiago Olmce were and still here we shall main on turtle island remember aborigines of Australia are missing links to Olmce rubber people muddy waters turtle island dream smoke dream catchers your aura from bottom of your feet to the top of your head clean air with good medicine wheel cycle of timeless life enlitement for mother earth children that feed on mother earth A'ho manning blessing to you, family orientated throw Aztecs native islanders water men ,and water is life WALK IN BEAUTY!.
if you don't know your past we'll don't know your further Generation for tomorrow just don't forget where you came from A'HO your aura of energy remember medicine wheel cycle of timeless life indigenous people of turtle island yeah if your eyes around shape African, and European mix blood Arbe decent also base on Christian that came to across water on ships arrived to new world homies, starving for food, land spacial, crops foundation of turtle island documentary of discovery reader open book read it don't just look at read more information pass it along now fair we'll to you remember never plant seeds of hate understand truth.
Im 100% native american beautiful video im chiricahua apache and proud to be from Geronimo im a young guy stilk very young barely live a quarter hopefully live up 100 years of my life full of hope glory and love my life much love
Thank you Especially Big Sycuan.. My brother Elvis my good neighbor.. my father loved to play the machines in Sycuan Casino. He died out there and I have returned to Hawaii where I am from with father's bones . I thank you. Your hospitality and your fancy machines made my father smile. Take care.. My deepest luv and Respects to the Great Grandfather Totonka.. and my friend Elvis of the Kumeyaay.. Thank you.. Aloha
Beautiful culture and beautiful people I hope their legacy can leave threw their kids and their kids keep their culture going. As a Mexican I know the importance and love to the land. I remember eating mesquite with my grandma and my dad teaching what plants can be use for many things.
Owka! Look at the many places that hide amongst the millions of people in the city. Go visit cabrillo national monument, maritime museum San Salvador Ship,.presidio museum, mission de alcala, the mission dam, imperial valley desert museum, Borrego springs Interpretive center....you found you have left the city. I have left out the mountains in my haste. Cuyamaca and Laguna mountains and view points.....the grizzly once roamed these parts, now the black bear does! -say Owka Owka Owka and let the lands know I sent you Ha-Emah
You could have your own state should Mindanao was not forcibly incorporated to the Philippines, and now your domain is already occupied if not owned by the settlers from Visayas and Luzon.
It's heartbreaking to know the destructions... I was watching the HBO Docu-Series "Exterminate All The Brutes" and to see the map of the United States of the Indian Nations before colonization made me cry. I love living in San Diego but hate how the land was taken from the natives and how my people were brought here from Africa. Man... Sending love and light 🙏
Your comment really hits home! As a proud African descendant in America, I feel that we don't ever get an opportunity to speak and heal on all that was taken from us as well as the First Nation's people of Turtle Island "Native Americans". When the time comes, those Brutes will have done more irreparable damage to their own European descendants.
Yes the people in this video are not the natives!!!! The people being called blacks people today are and that is a fact they took and the hide everything from us but everything is starting to come to light the gig is up the truth of who the real natives to Americas and this planet is coming!!
@@R.Es1 That came across the Bering straight and mixed with our people that was already in the Americas and Mexico? That they hide the people that was everywhere first?
Wow, what a beautiful people. I love learning about my brothers and sisters, fellow tribes that I didn't even know existed, and learning about what area they're from and some of their wonderful traditions. How horrid that we not only had our land stolen from us and loved ones murdered, but that we were forced from our cultures and handed books that ironically taught others that WE were the ones who were savages😡 Talk about a disconnect from reality. I'm happy that many tribes have turned back to their roots. We have nothing to be ashamed of and everything to be proud of about ourselves. That was a very beautiful poem at the end. Thank you for sharing this. And whoever created it did a very good job!
@@lisathatone2976 Nice to know you're doing good... My pleasure meeting you here.. I am from San Jose CA.. but I'm presently working on a drilling contract here in gulf of Mexico United States working.. 400 nautical miles in the ocean.. And you????
@@lisathatone2976 Oh i see.. we'll I don't come here too often due to my job.. would you mind if we have conversation in an advance platform? If you're comfortable with that...
I'm so glad I found this channel, I'm from Barona my grandmother was Lucy Adams and my mom was Dolores Matheny (Snookie) I was raised Diegueno/ Capitan Grande Band of California Mission Indian if my grandma ever heard me say I was I was Kumeyaay she'd come out of her grave and pop me a good one upside my head. I have relatives on most of the east county reservations, when I was young Viejas was called Baron Long, the three sister reservations are Barona, Viejas and Sycuan. My grandma used to make acorn mush, she used to laugh at me because I would tell her it tasted like sand at the beach lol. The first time I heard the name Kumeyaay was when I was 7 or 8 and Aunt Rosie Pinto was talking to my Aunt Evelyn and my grandma about it. Grandma told her I was born Diegueno and I'll die Diegueno, and she said my grandkids are Diegueno, and Aunt Rosie never mentioned it again as far as I know
Beautiful culture, I really hope more San Diegans watch this and learn the history and culture of the native Kumeyaay. Long live them, long live the Kumeyaay!
That game is like shoe game in the Navajo Reservation. My grandma used to pray from morning and then gather herbs for use and cook for us and use every part of an animal we kill to eat . Then ceremony we attended and meanings of songs and dances. I miss those gatherings.
When people gets hooked on what “real america” is, and think in the founding fathers, etc., I remember that there were societies who called this blessed land home and helped to carve our current nation. In an unimaginable way… My heart goes to the martyrs who had to withstand the huge injustices through the time…They had their oun fights among other nations, but nothing compared to what the “settlers” did to this mystical and wise people…
Few cultures in the history of this planet were bigger murderers, rapists, thieves and savages then the Indians were against neighboring tribes. They met their match when the Europeans arrived. NOTHING was stolen from the Indians, they were CONQUERED. Conquered just like every single piece of land on earth has been at some point. It is how the world works and how it worked for the Indians as well. Today, they are a worthless culture. They contribute nothing. ''
I been to beautiful lands where you live too, Cherokee reservation, Asheville, Blue ridge parkway. I hope you will see beyond the city. The city has good things, but an Indian once said..."cities are places with people with too much and people with too little". Mission Trails Regional Park Interpretive center, mission de alcala, the presidio museum, the maritime museum San Salvador Ship, imperial valley desert museum (tell them I sent you), Borrego Springs Interpretive center-Ha-,Emah
The lady still speaking her native language!!! Which is very special for her people, especially for her daughter, I love it, please don't let it died it makes us original. I am Mayan and it makes me feel not so different than you guys. Adios amigos los quiero mucho mucho!!
@@Snowboy2015 well, I guess you only speak a language, but not me, I speak my native mayan language Spanish and English. Adios papi chulo no fumes mucha mota y se mas productivo.
I lived in Tecate Baja Cali,and crossed the border to attend school, from 64 to 68. My school mates where from the Campo and Manzanita/ Jacumba tribes. The beauty of the the East San Diego Mountains,hwy East 94.have the most fascinating 3 dimension carvings. More archaeological documentation should be presented of this ancient art form. Especially of Mt Cochoma,on both sides of the border.
I want to add the most fascinating event that will leave you speechless. Mt Cochoma on the Tecate Baja Cali side,as your traveling towards the mountain, from Tecate, you'll have a full view of Cochoma. On the left side of the Mt Cochoma towards the bottom about three quarters. There's a giant granet slab leaning on some very big natural stones. No information was available,why was this giant slab there. It doesn't match the natural terrain and it was obvious that it was most likely put there. Then finally in the day of the winter solstice. I was headed to Tijuana. I stopped to to view and pay my respect to mount Cochoma. Right at sunset the Sun was exactly exactly in the middle of thet giant Stone it was a sundial how interesting most of them are carving on on rocks or standing stones but this one was gigantic just gives you a understanding of what technology ancient people had. PS plus any sunny day when its about half an hour to sunset, you can see a endless amount of three dimension stone carving. ND right before complete sunset. The sky change color of the rainbow. Each color last close to a minute. The last color is always purple. Then the Mountain comes alive. It's like being in art studio,the sizes of a super
This makes me really want to know what tribe my ancestors are from in Africa. Slaves were not allowed to practice anything regarding their heritage. So happy to learn more about The Kumeyaay people though. Bless you!💕
@@go-goyubari8776 you wish! The DNA of the Americas first inhabitants, is unique, they were isolated by the ice age for centuries, we didn't mix, we couldn't! The Natives of the Americas, r that! The first footprints on the Americas, and no one ever cared for this land like we did, we adorned her with emerald mounds and beautiful pyramids, we pampered her bc she was good to us! How she has changed. The wind that should dry our tears, is now heavy and smells like burnt earth. The earth that should heal our wounds is so wounded it's slowly dying.
@@teresafernandez9849 The first sapien sapiens of the Earth were African. DNA shows that every admixed population on the planet has African DNA. You descended from US. I can send peer reviewed data if you like
History doesn’t start when the European-American say so and when they invaded. It starts with the indigenous people history. Please continue to share and spread this to kids and adults. Thank you.
I’m a San Diego native born & raised. I’ve lived all my life in a town called Rancho Penasquitos. My town is known for being very HAUNTED. Many houses are known for having paranormal activity. The original movie “Paranormal Activity” was shot half a block from the house I grew up in. My town is known for being on Indian burial ground.
I visited my brother last month and we went hiking in Mission Gorge(?) and I read about the Kumeyaay in the visitor's center. So happy to randomly come across this video! I'm from the Carolina's and learned about Eastern Native American tribes and how they lived off the land. The landscape and natural resources are so different in SoCal to me, as I'm used to swamps, thick forests, food options everywhere, etc. Great info you provide here to my curious mind :)
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Kumeyaay that escaped from the Missions sometimes ended way up in Miwok territory where they were adopted into the tribes. I am Southern Sierra Miwok(Yosemite) and when my little boy died years ago, a Kumeyaay man, Bear Rivera, did the Traditional service for us and told me that among his band of Kumeyaay, they still remember how my people took them in. So thank you my Native kin from the south!.
I am wondering which tribes were guardians of Sequoia Park area and the Giant groves of trees...Miwok? My parents met there and took me there as a child and that land is forever sacred to me....The fires have recently caused some evacuations in the area.
What a beautiful story /memories. Thanks for sharing.
This people are extintion all are mixed or foreing no have children poor anymore 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ They are only mixed wanting to be something they are not, nor do they speak the language and they speak English
@michael boultinghouse you are a mixed now white practicaly your culture is white... native is a people who have poor blood or one of the parents is native
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In San Diego there should be mandatory field trips for kids in history or social studies to take a trip to learn about native Kumeyaay life and culture. I think it would incite in them a respect in interest in native history and their ways of life. Thank you so much for making this documentary. I loved it.
There used to be! I remember learning about them and going on field trips to various areas in the 90s when I was in school
ruben champollion oh boy
@ruben champollion What the fuck is your issue dude? My comment wasn't even posted recently? Don't take your anger out on people who have nothing to do with your bitch ass whining. It's people like you that are the problem. I was talking about my school experience in the fucking 90s get the fuck off me.
They did when i was in school in the early 90s
When I was a kid, we did this
I was born in South Africa. Came of age in Australia. Now I live in San Diego. It's so important to learn about the people who were here before us. I very much appreciate this documentary. So too does my wife who is kumeyaay!
Native American culture deserves so much respect.
What's a NATIVE AMERICAN?
@@peter-panwannabebootyscatchers didnt you watch the vedio!!??
Few cultures in the history of this planet were bigger murderers, rapists, thieves and savages then the Indians were against neighboring tribes. They met their match when the Europeans arrived. NOTHING was stolen from the Indians, they were CONQUERED. Conquered just like every single piece of land on earth has been at some point. It is how the world works and how it worked for the Indians as well. Today, they are a worthless culture. They contribute nothing....
The present Indians took the land from the Polynesians.
@@Fortdirt1 Although we are all related the way we see it, our direct ancestors were the Yuman Cupenos ( kupa ) which descended from Hopi but! We are connected to Yaqui, Utes, Navajo ( dine ), Apache, and Athabaskan people. The Great South West! My great grandfather was Jose Miramontes Salazar from Guamuchil Sinaloa, Mexico. His people were Cahitan Yaqui yeomen but his wife Ana Ybarra was Cochimi from Guadalupe, Ensenada B.c.s. My great grandfather is a direct relative to Emilio Zapata Salazar who was Yaqui indio. My mother's side were Naso Teribe Tikos from Costa Rica & while her grandfathers were Tarahumara and Chichimeca decent
The history of the Indigenous people is so heartbreaking, so full of tragedies, death and suffering. There needs to be truth in history that is taught in schools. But I am so happy to see their culture and their way of life coming back. Awesome video.
#MMIWG ✊🏽
@The history of every race and nation is full of tragedy, death and suffering. There is nothing special about these folks. My own Celtic ancestors once ruled Europe from Hesse to Northern Italy but were driven from their lands until pushed into the last corners of the continent, Wales, Ireland and Scotland.
Wales was almost repopulate by the Anglo Saxons in the early 1800 which used deportation to send my predecessors to the penal colony of Australia.
And the suffering of a small tribe over a short time us quite trivial compared to the millennia of horror faced by the Armenians, Jews and Kurds. What happened to the Poles during the 1930s and 40s dwarfs the sorrows of any one American Indian tribe.
Last but not least, there is simply no moral superiority that attaches to a people just because they got their asses kicked in a war. The Nazis got obliterated by barbarian hordes and fire from the skies in Biblical fashion, but they certainly deserve no sympathy, now do they?
True, it should.
Please stop using terms like "Indian, Indegenous, Native". We are Innuet, Apache, Aztec, Maya, Inca. Nobody ever says "Indigenous Irish" or "Native Gaul"
@@johnwilkes4671 what an idiot. Nobody cares about euro history here. It is an Rxpose of these beautiful Civilizations. You justify with your rant why the documentary MUST BE MADE😉😉
As a San diegan, I wish they taught us all this in school. I’ve lived here all my life and didn’t know any of this. ❤️
It warms my heart seeing content like this being made. Love my people!
Your people??? By that do you mean your race??
When I think of "my people", I think of Americans as a whole. " American" is a people that includes every race and creed. But I am guessing that your definition of "my people" is much narrower and racial in nature.
I'm fascinated by the native Americans that are here in Socal. I'm trying to learn as much as I can & this was one of the best documentaries I've seen.
Iam a native Sequioa California Indian....California earth has kept me alive...I have cultivated the land and lived of the northern California coast living off fish and shellfish oysters abalone I have fished the brooks and rivers of California the north Eel river to Russian to SanFransico Bay catching crabs and fish and oysters...I can tell many stories of California...I live amoung my family the Sequoias....I have eaten the wild boar and deer of the Humbolt County Sonoma County...the deer taught me how to forrest vegetation...I picked the wild apples and blackberries in the Redwood forest...I made acorn Flatbread
Its a shame that we didn't learn about the Kumeyaay at school . Specially here in San Diego.
Or go on field trips and to walk these lands that have so much history and culture.
This is what really matters when youre a young adult growing up. at least to me. how can i learn more?
I know, right? Thankfully, my mother served as a caretaker for one of the retired tribal members and our last memory before their passing, they invited her and me to the Pow Wow. It's a precious experience I will never forget. I miss them.
Really?? I'm curious, when did you graduate high school? I was in public school majority of the 90s and we had plenty of field trips and classes learning about them.
Anigamer Cosplay wtf does graduating high school have to do with anything, this is my personal experience! don’t waste my time human!
Captain Calian's Adventures that’s so cool!
@@elliedavalostarango Oh my gosh I'm sorry... I didn't mean for my comment to come off as rude or anything! I'm really sorry if it did... I was honestly just curious... I'm so sorry... I was just sharing my experience as well. I apologize. I asked what year you graduated because I was curious if maybe things have changed since I went to school... Again I'm really sorry if I offended you.
Every kid in school in San Diego should learn about the Kumeyaay.
We learned about them in the 90s
Not only in San Francisco! Worldwide!
I was born in Colombia, my DNA test tells me my ancient origins are Mayan, Aztec, North American native, and Inca. But it says my closest modern relatives are the Kumeyaay. My ancestors must have travelled a hell of a long way all the way from North America to South America. Interesting documentary!
Hi Ole-Spelemann which DNA test did you take?
Hermetic people amerikkas south central north mesicas maya inca descents
@@wealthbymind mytrueancestry. This is specific for ancient populations though. Ive got spanish, greek, french, italian, scottish and irish too but that is another test. If you take a test like familytreedna you can upload your raw data to MTA.
Hence why Maiz, Yucca, Avocado native to my Maya Ancestors spread throughout the Land Mass. The notion the Nomadic people were limited geographically is a huuuuuge mistake as your DNA proves😉😉
Your feature show the European ancestry
Very well done! Thank you, I will be showing this to my 7th graders in north San Diego county.
watched this twice. Very informative. THANKS.
5:05. We didn’t cross the border the border crossed us , ✊🏾. I’m in love with this documentary ,
THATS RIIIGHT! GO CARLOS! Yahhhh HEYYY!!! Love it when my people speak the truth GO MAN.
BULLSHIT!!! Nobody anywhere ever owned owns any land, we they just were living there, period. All these unnecessary problems come from assuming such a notion. Plus they were there for 10,000 years? Well, there’s a new kid in town & he’s only been around briefly? Uh, yeah, changing of the guard. The Wild Kingdom
Owka! There are many great videos and much respect to all indigenous and all peoples. -Ha-Emah (Digueno/Tipai)
My respects to the original people of this part of our world, I have known kumeyaay from neji, and they are good people. Although modern life has altered and affected their traditions, I hope our creator will help them live in peace and stay united, together they can keep their traditions alive.
Auka/Owka. The women sing bird songs in their region. Unique
-Digueno cultural knowledge keeper
I live in escondido california which is in San Diego County and there is a bunch of artifacts in my trailer park. The native tribe that used to live where I live at are the ipai tribe from the kummeyaay tribe. I don't live on a reservation but there are so many artifacts. I found a arrowhead once and I found a milling station in my backyard. I found the milling station when I was in my backyard and I found it buried in brush. I searched it up on Google and it said it was where the native americans grinded stuff at. Told my friends and my other friend found an arrowhead in his yard. Crazy how I don't live on a reservation but there is still artifacts.
You are a blessing to earth, friends
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MUCH LOVE TO ALL THE NATIVE PEOPLE THEY PURE AT HEART💯👍
Speak the Native Language, grow in population, and prosper.
Arte Bar I am Kumeyaay and only know few phrases sadly. We are dying
Y B Haawka, there’s a website called learniipayaa.weebly.com, there’s a dictionary(called the Dictionary of Mesa Grande Diegueño), a textbook called Let’s Talk ‘Iipay Aa, and a grammar called a Grammar of Mesa Grande Diegueño.
Hope that helps if you want to speak Kumeyaay. Also, these are all in the Northern dialect
I am Southern Sierra Miwok, learned a little of the language from Elders as a child. My Mother and Aunt didn't want to speak it in the 50's, especially in school even though there were several Miwoks still in Mariposa High. My aunt refused to speak the little she had around her kids until she was like 70. I hear some tribes are re-introducing these languages on Rancherias here in Cali. It's likely too late for us. As for population, I am literally the last of my immediate family, no siblings and my only child died some time ago. One of the reasons my mom and aunt left Mariposa was because, even in what was our historic home in the Mariposa-Yosemite Valley, there were so few of us that all the Native boys were cousins to one degree or the other. That's a MAJOR taboo with us.
You got that right.
@@Anaris10 Yes! In México and South America, they have been teaching Native languages in schools for a while now.
Amazing documentary. I was born in Tecate and you reminded me of the food I use to eat. Definitely going to try and teach my kids what I lost. Thank you so much
I was born in San Diego and have lived here my entire life, I’m so grateful for this wonderful video and I deeply appreciate the time and energy it took to create this video…
Amazing documentary.
I`m from Poland, and I love Native People !
How come Poland doesn't take in any immigrants?
This was a wonderful film. I thank you profoundly. As a non native, born in California I feel that I was robbed of knowing the roots of California culture. I learned about the Missions and that is all. We learned how "wonderful Father Serra was" that he took in the poor starving indians and saved their souls and gave them jobs. Jeez, what a crock.
The best thing u can do now is go back to Europe where u belong
Right, PEOPLE that have been here since the beggining of time needed to find the concotion of "christ" to survive😂😂
loved this documentary. i myself am not kumeyaay, im pan-indian (mainly choctaw). my great grandfather grew up on a reservation in missouri and when he moved out here to california he donated a lot of money and time to help improve and assist reservations out here (rincon and pala mainly) in return he was given a community out here with the kumeyaay after traveling so far from home. although he was not kumeyaay he was treated as one of their own. he ended up becoming a council member. when he passed he was layed to rest at Pala. so i feel a strong connection to the kumeyaay people even if i dont technically have kumeyaay blood. peace and love to all my relations ✌🏼❤
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☮️ from Navajo Nation
Just stop using that word "Indian". Indians are from India. As in west of Cathay.😉😉
This was an amazing doc, we def don't learn enough about local history...this land is legendary!
Really excellent presentation. Thank you! I'm a native San Diegan and back in about 1975 a woman on the Los Coyotes IR taught me how to prepare live oak acorns for food, and I did so. The method was somewhat similar to what is shown in this video, but after shelling and grinding a bit (to fine gravel size, like DG) I then put the ground acorns into a woven container and set it into gently flowing water for several hours. That leeched away all the tannin. Then dried, ground some more and then 'boiled and boiled and boiled', as she told me. She said they called it WEWISH. She also joked that it's called wewish 'because we wish we had something better'. I admit that it had very little taste, but I tried various things until I mixed it with some Aunt Jemima pancake mix and made super-delicious pancakes (and no doubt they were much more nutritious than regular pancakes, too)
that's so smart to use the woven basket in a gentle river!
Owka/Howka/Auka!! Shawii in Digueno Kumeyaay. Wewish in Luiseno. Your pancakes sound great!-Ha-,Emah
This was amazing!!! Mahālo for sharing!!!
What an extraordinary documentary! It started out with the usual descriptive history, but unfolded into hands-on visuals, even how-tos of how to chip a flint arrowhead, how a bow and arrow are made, games they played, how to harvest, prepare, and cook the plants native to the areas -- remarkably alive. It was exciting. I'm going to watch it again, right now.
Thank you to all those involved in this production. You have brought this part of the world and the time to life!
I LIVE IN THE IMPERIAL VALLEY. SO COOL TO LEARN ABOUT THE FIRST PEOPLE TO HAVE LIVED IN THE SOUTH CA.
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Owka! Now you must journey west, hope you visit the imperial valley desert museum..always lots going on there.. mission dam, mission de Alcala, MTRP interpretive center, presidio museum, maritime museum San Salvador Ship, cabrillo
❤️❤️❤️ I love all natives. Thank you for sharing your culture.
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Thank you for sharing and teaching....
Great video. Thank you.
I live on Rancho in kumeyaay land, I cherish the grinding stones and artifacts we find on our walks, we recognize you and your history, thank you and may our creator always be with you.
Kumeyaay's the real americans,this country is them
Marina Santiago Olmce were and still here we shall main on turtle island remember aborigines of Australia are missing links to Olmce rubber people muddy waters turtle island dream smoke dream catchers your aura from bottom of your feet to the top of your head clean air with good medicine wheel cycle of timeless life enlitement for mother earth children that feed on mother earth A'ho manning blessing to you, family orientated throw Aztecs native islanders water men ,and water is life WALK IN BEAUTY!.
if you don't know your past we'll don't know your further Generation for tomorrow just don't forget where you came from A'HO your aura of energy remember medicine wheel cycle of timeless life indigenous people of turtle island yeah if your eyes around shape African, and European mix blood Arbe decent also base on Christian that came to across water on ships arrived to new world homies, starving for food, land spacial, crops foundation of turtle island documentary of discovery reader open book read it don't just look at read more information pass it along now fair we'll to you remember never plant seeds of hate understand truth.
@@pontiacaztec917 Congratulations. If your Olmec your the last living member of your tribe.
I love seeing this kind of content so it doesn’t get lost.
Im 100% native american beautiful video im chiricahua apache and proud to be from Geronimo im a young guy stilk very young barely live a quarter hopefully live up 100 years of my life full of hope glory and love my life much love
I would love come to an agave roast 😋 beautiful documentary love from 🇲🇽
Thank you Especially Big Sycuan.. My brother Elvis my good neighbor.. my father loved to play the machines in Sycuan Casino. He died out there and I have returned to Hawaii where I am from with father's bones . I thank you. Your hospitality and your fancy machines made my father smile. Take care.. My deepest luv and Respects to the Great Grandfather Totonka.. and my friend Elvis of the Kumeyaay.. Thank you.. Aloha
Beautiful culture and beautiful people I hope their legacy can leave threw their kids and their kids keep their culture going. As a Mexican I know the importance and love to the land. I remember eating mesquite with my grandma and my dad teaching what plants can be use for many things.
This beautiful message resonates with my soul. Design ing a bow & arrow or weaving a basket & use them is rare now & needs to be preserved.
I'm so glad I found this video, I have learned more about the Kumeyaay then anything I previously found.
Owka! Look at the many places that hide amongst the millions of people in the city. Go visit cabrillo national monument, maritime museum San Salvador Ship,.presidio museum, mission de alcala, the mission dam, imperial valley desert museum, Borrego springs Interpretive center....you found you have left the city. I have left out the mountains in my haste. Cuyamaca and Laguna mountains and view points.....the grizzly once roamed these parts, now the black bear does! -say Owka Owka Owka and let the lands know I sent you Ha-Emah
What a wonderful film. Thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you for sharing. We are Indigenous Peoples of Mindanao Southern Philippines. Native Tboli.
You could have your own state should Mindanao was not forcibly incorporated to the Philippines, and now your domain is already occupied if not owned by the settlers from Visayas and Luzon.
It's heartbreaking to know the destructions... I was watching the HBO Docu-Series "Exterminate All The Brutes" and to see the map of the United States of the Indian Nations before colonization made me cry. I love living in San Diego but hate how the land was taken from the natives and how my people were brought here from Africa. Man... Sending love and light 🙏
Your comment really hits home! As a proud African descendant in America, I feel that we don't ever get an opportunity to speak and heal on all that was taken from us as well as the First Nation's people of Turtle Island "Native Americans". When the time comes, those Brutes will have done more irreparable damage to their own European descendants.
Yes the people in this video are not the natives!!!! The people being called blacks people today are and that is a fact they took and the hide everything from us but everything is starting to come to light the gig is up the truth of who the real natives to Americas and this planet is coming!!
@@Bowigg3 yes you absolutely Incorrect.
@@R.Es1 😂 this not a debate I guess you are a so called Native American the mixed Asian with the straight hair right?
@@R.Es1 That came across the Bering straight and mixed with our people that was already in the Americas and Mexico? That they hide the people that was everywhere first?
Wow, what a beautiful people.
I love learning about my brothers and sisters, fellow tribes that I didn't even know existed, and learning about what area they're from and some of their wonderful traditions.
How horrid that we not only had our land stolen from us and loved ones murdered, but that we were forced from our cultures and handed books that ironically taught others that WE were the ones who were savages😡
Talk about a disconnect from reality.
I'm happy that many tribes have turned back to their roots.
We have nothing to be ashamed of and everything to be proud of about ourselves.
That was a very beautiful poem at the end.
Thank you for sharing this. And whoever created it did a very good job!
Thank you all for sharing your history & how you live. Stay strong & true. 👍❤️
That was soo informative, thank you for putting this 2gether so well!
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@@adamcrew7641 I'm doing super good! Where u at??
@@lisathatone2976 Nice to know you're doing good... My pleasure meeting you here.. I am from San Jose CA.. but I'm presently working on a drilling contract here in gulf of Mexico United States working.. 400 nautical miles in the ocean.. And you????
@@adamcrew7641 wow! That is impressive, seriously! I'm in Encinitas, North County San Diego.🙂
@@lisathatone2976 Oh i see.. we'll I don't come here too often due to my job.. would you mind if we have conversation in an advance platform? If you're comfortable with that...
I'm so glad I found this channel, I'm from Barona my grandmother was Lucy Adams and my mom was Dolores Matheny (Snookie) I was raised Diegueno/ Capitan Grande Band of California Mission Indian if my grandma ever heard me say I was I was Kumeyaay she'd come out of her grave and pop me a good one upside my head. I have relatives on most of the east county reservations, when I was young Viejas was called Baron Long, the three sister reservations are Barona, Viejas and Sycuan. My grandma used to make acorn mush, she used to laugh at me because I would tell her it tasted like sand at the beach lol. The first time I heard the name Kumeyaay was when I was 7 or 8 and Aunt Rosie Pinto was talking to my Aunt Evelyn and my grandma about it. Grandma told her I was born Diegueno and I'll die Diegueno, and she said my grandkids are Diegueno, and Aunt Rosie never mentioned it again as far as I know
Did she ever say why?
Fascinating doc
Beautiful culture, I really hope more San Diegans watch this and learn the history and culture of the native Kumeyaay. Long live them, long live the Kumeyaay!
Very interesting way of life.
Excellent documentary.
Good video, I learned a lot. I’m from Southern California and never knew about San Diego’s tribes
Owka! Keep the path and your journey....it's only beginning-Ha,-Emah
Thank you for sharing this with us!! Very Beautifully done!!
That game is like shoe game in the Navajo Reservation. My grandma used to pray from morning and then gather herbs for use and cook for us and use every part of an animal we kill to eat . Then ceremony we attended and meanings of songs and dances. I miss those gatherings.
California Love from Kumeyay to Chumash, Yurok, Paiute, Salinan, Siskiyou. ect
When people gets hooked on what “real america” is, and think in the founding fathers, etc., I remember that there were societies who called this blessed land home and helped to carve our current nation. In an unimaginable way… My heart goes to the martyrs who had to withstand the huge injustices through the time…They had their oun fights among other nations, but nothing compared to what the “settlers” did to this mystical and wise people…
Few cultures in the history of this planet were bigger murderers, rapists, thieves and savages then the Indians were against neighboring tribes. They met their match when the Europeans arrived. NOTHING was stolen from the Indians, they were CONQUERED. Conquered just like every single piece of land on earth has been at some point. It is how the world works and how it worked for the Indians as well. Today, they are a worthless culture. They contribute nothing. ''
Great spirit walks with you all . Keep remembering and make what you do , yours as it was in the beginning .!
Thank you for sharing beautiful content. Love to see the indigenous thriving in so called modern times.
Owka! Welcome!
Thank you, this is great.
My grandmother is Santa Ysabel Kumeyaay. Lavina!
Beautifully edited and put together, thanks for uploading this amazingly informative video. Keep up the good work.
Kumeyaay territory is gorgeous. I come from Eastern Cherokee territory in eastern Tennessee and North Carolina.
I been to beautiful lands where you live too, Cherokee reservation, Asheville, Blue ridge parkway. I hope you will see beyond the city. The city has good things, but an Indian once said..."cities are places with people with too much and people with too little". Mission Trails Regional Park Interpretive center, mission de alcala, the presidio museum, the maritime museum San Salvador Ship, imperial valley desert museum (tell them I sent you), Borrego Springs Interpretive center-Ha-,Emah
The lady still speaking her native language!!! Which is very special for her people, especially for her daughter, I love it, please don't let it died it makes us original. I am Mayan and it makes me feel not so different than you guys. Adios amigos los quiero mucho mucho!!
Yet you write in Spanish. How about practicing what u preach, boy..
@@Snowboy2015 yeah I speak both, it's not a problem for me.
@@antoniocamposeco9334 I highly doubt that, my wigga..
@@Snowboy2015 well, I guess you only speak a language, but not me, I speak my native mayan language Spanish and English. Adios papi chulo no fumes mucha mota y se mas productivo.
I lived in San Diego for about 15 years, I understood any distrust but wish I had gotten to meet more.
I lived in Tecate Baja Cali,and crossed the border to attend school, from 64 to 68. My school mates where from the Campo and Manzanita/ Jacumba tribes. The beauty of the the East San Diego Mountains,hwy East 94.have the most fascinating 3 dimension carvings. More archaeological documentation should be presented of this ancient art form. Especially of Mt Cochoma,on both sides of the border.
I want to add the most fascinating event that will leave you speechless. Mt Cochoma on the Tecate Baja Cali side,as your traveling towards the mountain, from Tecate, you'll have a full view of Cochoma. On the left side of the Mt Cochoma towards the bottom about three quarters. There's a giant granet slab leaning on some very big natural stones. No information was available,why was this giant slab there. It doesn't match the natural terrain and it was obvious that it was most likely put there. Then finally in the day of the winter solstice. I was headed to Tijuana. I stopped to to view and pay my respect to mount Cochoma. Right at sunset the Sun was exactly exactly in the middle of thet giant Stone it was a sundial how interesting most of them are carving on on rocks or standing stones but this one was gigantic just gives you a understanding of what technology ancient people had. PS plus any sunny day when its about half an hour to sunset, you can see a endless amount of three dimension stone carving. ND right before complete sunset. The sky change color of the rainbow. Each color last close to a minute. The last color is always purple. Then the Mountain comes alive. It's like being in art studio,the sizes of a super
32:00 I always wondered why I found shellfish inland and now it makes sense!
I love it when traditions are kept!
This makes me really want to know what tribe my ancestors are from in Africa. Slaves were not allowed to practice anything regarding their heritage. So happy to learn more about The Kumeyaay people though. Bless you!💕
It wouldn't be tribe it would be tribes. AA's come from many ethnic groups that were brought to America.
You'll be surprised that you're not even AA.... A lot of us were right here Pre Columbus
@@go-goyubari8776 you wish! The DNA of the Americas first inhabitants, is unique, they were isolated by the ice age for centuries, we didn't mix, we couldn't! The Natives of the Americas, r that! The first footprints on the Americas, and no one ever cared for this land like we did, we adorned her with emerald mounds and beautiful pyramids, we pampered her bc she was good to us! How she has changed. The wind that should dry our tears, is now heavy and smells like burnt earth. The earth that should heal our wounds is so wounded it's slowly dying.
@@teresafernandez9849 The first sapien sapiens of the Earth were African. DNA shows that every admixed population on the planet has African DNA. You descended from US. I can send peer reviewed data if you like
@@go-goyubari8776 absolutely Incorrect.
History doesn’t start when the European-American say so and when they invaded. It starts with the indigenous people history. Please continue to share and spread this to kids and adults. Thank you.
I didn't see any indigenous ppl in this video and what's a European American?
I’m a San Diego native born & raised. I’ve lived all my life in a town called Rancho Penasquitos. My town is known for being very HAUNTED. Many houses are known for having paranormal activity. The original movie “Paranormal Activity” was shot half a block from the house I grew up in. My town is known for being on Indian burial ground.
Amazing video
I learned a lot of history!
There is a Kumeyeey interpretive center in Poway for anyone who would like to educate their children
What a beautiful culture
I 💚 Kumeyaay Land!
Exceptional Documentary, amazing Peoples.
Best Wellbeing ...
Beautiful
I really enjoyed this🙌🙌☺️
Thank you for this!! So important!!
Respect from Dakota Territory in South-West Manitoba, Canada.
Wonderful documentary
And the pilgrims and native American helped each other, and they had a big picnic to celebrate their friendship!
I have so much love and respect for the Kumeyaay people ❤
Beautiful 💚
My granddaughter is kumeyaay and lives on the land.
What areas in san Diego California or in valley center
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Loved this
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This was on my online school homework but split into threes
What was the original dress like for the women? What was used to create the fabric?
Loved this!
Why don't the Kumeyaay people use eagle feathers. Very interesting bit of information.
Love my Indigenous brothers and sisters ☺️☺️☺️
I have heard of acorn stew. I would love to try it.
I visited my brother last month and we went hiking in Mission Gorge(?) and I read about the Kumeyaay in the visitor's center. So happy to randomly come across this video! I'm from the Carolina's and learned about Eastern Native American tribes and how they lived off the land. The landscape and natural resources are so different in SoCal to me, as I'm used to swamps, thick forests, food options everywhere, etc. Great info you provide here to my curious mind :)
these are my people.
Can you Help me my granddaughter is your people her mother took her after 8 year's can her tribe help me try to get her back
From Mesa Arizona (480) Good day Mexico from Manuel de Jesus Fraire of Parker Arizona (928) animo.
Awesome Ancestral Facts...Beautiful....Spirit is always here...may the winds be at your back..onelv
Long live the Kumeyaay!!