Jane Dumas is an elder and enrolled member of Jamul Indian Village, a Kumeyaay nation. She has worked to teach and preserve tribal ethnobotanical knowledge, learning about plants and their uses by the Kumeyaay and tribal neighbors in the San Diego and northern Baja CA area. She has also worked to keep alive the Kumeyaay language, spoken by 13 tribal nation in San Diego county. For more information on her, see:
http://www.kumeyaay.info/photos/elders/aunt_lugardia.html
http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues02/Co01262002/CO_01262002_Tribal_Elder.htm
Richard Bugbee (Lusieño/Kumeyaay) in the news editor for Kumeyaay.com, an site representing the history and culture of the Kumeyaay nations and people today. He is also on the board of Advocates for California Indigenous Language Survival ( http://www.aicls.org ), and has worked with Jane Dumas for years to learn Kumeyaay and other cultural knowledge. For more information see:
http://www.neshkinukat.org/artists/bugbee.html
The assigned reading order has changed below to make the best use of this opportunity to learn from our visitors. It is extremely important to read the Delfina Cuero book.
MARCH 7 A Visit with Jane Dumas and Richard Bugbee
Heizer, Robert F. The Destruction of California Indians. ES110 Reader. (W)
Delfina Cuero, and Florence Connolly Shipek. Delfina Cuero : Her Autobiography.
Hinton, Leanne. Flutes of fire : essays on California Indian languages. ES 110 Reader 20-69 (W)
Deborah Dozier. “Prologue” and “Bird Songs”, The Heart Is Fire. ES110 Reader. (R)
BERNADETTE ESSAY DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS
MARCH 9 Cultural Configuration of Native California
Bean, Lowell John. “Power and its Applications in Native California.” Reader.
Hinton, Leanne. Flutes of fire : essays on California Indian languages. ES 110 Reader 70-93 (R)
Kroeber, Theodora. The Inland Whale. ES110 Reader. (W)
POWER ESSAY DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS