Kumeyaay people

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First Nations of Baja California Indigenous people Native American people Yuman language

The Kumeyaay people are an Indigenous group native to the San Diego region of California and northern Baja California, known for their rich cultural traditions, deep environmental knowledge, and historical presence long predating European colonization.

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Observed surface forms (7)

Surface form Occurrences
Kumeyaay 8
Kumeyaay language 0
Kumeyaay (Ipai) people 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf First Nations of Baja California ⓘ
Indigenous people ⓘ
Native American people ⓘ
Yuman language ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Diegueño ⓘ
Ipai-Tipai ⓘ
colonialPowerEncountered Mexico ⓘ
Spain ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
culturalPractice ceremonial dances ⓘ
song traditions ⓘ
storytelling ⓘ
ethnicGroupOf Mexico ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
haveCommunityIn Baja California ⓘ
haveReservationIn Imperial County ⓘ
San Diego County ⓘ
historicalEvent Mission San Diego de Alcalá ⓘ
surface form: affected by Mission San Diego de Alcalá

resisted Spanish colonization ⓘ
knownFor acorn processing ⓘ
basketry ⓘ
environmental knowledge ⓘ
rock art ⓘ
language Kumeyaay language ⓘ
languageFamily Hokan languages ⓘ
surface form: Hokan language family
nativeTo Baja California ⓘ
San Diego metropolitan area ⓘ
surface form: San Diego region

northern Baja California ⓘ
Southern California ⓘ
surface form: southern California
partOf Yuman peoples ⓘ
preContactLifestyle horticulturalists ⓘ
hunter-gatherer ⓘ
relatedGroup Cocopah people ⓘ
Paipai people ⓘ
Quechan people ⓘ
religion Roman Catholicism ⓘ
surface form: Catholicism

Protestantism ⓘ
traditional Kumeyaay religion ⓘ
subgroupOf Upland Yuman ⓘ
surface form: Delta–California Yuman
timeDepthInRegion thousands of years before European contact ⓘ
traditionalMaterialCulture pottery ⓘ
shell ornaments ⓘ
stone tools ⓘ
traditionalSubsistence fishing ⓘ
gathering wild plants ⓘ
hunting ⓘ
small-scale agriculture ⓘ
traditionalTerritoryIncludes Baja California ⓘ
surface form: Baja California Peninsula

Imperial County ⓘ
San Diego County ⓘ

Referenced by (29)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tipai → closelyRelatedTo → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
this entity surface form: Kumeyaay
Diegueño → ethnicGroup → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
Diegueño language → ethnicGroup → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
this entity surface form: Kumeyaay
Ipai language → ethnicGroup → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
this entity surface form: Kumeyaay (Ipai) people
Ipai-Tipai → ethnicGroup → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
this entity surface form: Kumeyaay
Kumeyaay language → ethnicGroup → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
this entity surface form: Kumeyaay
Kumiai → ethnicGroup → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
this entity surface form: Kumeyaay
Yuman → ethnicGroup → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
Southern Uto-Aztecan → hasLanguage → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
this entity surface form: Kumeyaay (Tipai-Ipai)
Yuman → hasLanguage → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
this entity surface form: Kumeyaay
Yuman peoples → hasPart → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
Kumiai → languageOf → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
this entity surface form: Kumeyaay Nation
Kumeyaay language → nativeTo → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
Cochimí people → neighboringGroup → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
Luiseño people → neighboringPeople → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
Cocopa people → relatedEthnicGroup → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
Kiliwa → relatedEthnicGroup → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
this entity surface form: Kumeyaay
Kiliwa people → relatedEthnicGroup → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
Paipai → relatedEthnicGroup → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
this entity surface form: Kumeyaay
Paipai people → relatedEthnicGroup → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
Diegueño language → spokenBy → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
Ipai language → spokenBy → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
Ipai-Tipai → spokenBy → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
Kumiai → spokenBy → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
Diegueño → traditionalTerritory → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
this entity surface form: Kumeyaay traditional lands
Diegueño → usedBy → Kumeyaay people ⓘ
this entity surface form: Kumeyaay communities