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Kumeyaay: A History Textbook:
Volume I: Precontact – 1873
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1870s Kumeyaay Gathering in Tecate
Photo Courtesy of the San Diego Historical Society
Michael Connolly:
Kumeyaay: A History Textbook:
Volume I: Precontact – 1873
According to Kumeyaay oral tradition, the Creator (Mai Ha) placed the Kumeyaay People on the Earth. From that time to the present, the Kumeyaay People have remained and flourished on their lands, despite many periods of hardship. Although the Kumeyaay people have existed with their own unique indigenous culture on their traditional lands for many thousands of years, after the first Spanish incursion into Kumeyaay territory in 1769, the Kumeyaay People began interacting with several different cultures and nations of European origin.
Following the 1824 Mexican Revolution, the Kumeyaay began interacting with the Mexican people and their culture. After the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo between Mexico and the United States—which ended the Mexican-American War—the Kumeyaay People began dealing socially, politically, and economically with the people of the United States and California.
Connolly’s Kumeyaay: A History Textbook provides a concise history of the Kumeyaay people. The book takes the reader from the time prior to contact with Europeans, through the period of Spanish presidios, colonization, and missionization, into the period of Mexican colonization and the vast rancheros, finally culminating with the American period from 1848 to 1873. This volume is the first of its kind: A history book about the Kumeyay Nation, written from a Kumeyaay perspective. |
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