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National flag of the sovereign Kumeyaay-Diegueño Nation displayed alongside the American and California state flags.

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Kumeyaay-Diegueño Flag Raising Ceremony & City Proclaims "Jane Dumas Day"

SAN DIEGO, CA, April 28, 2012 — Kumeyaay tribal members gathered with City of San Diego Park officials and community supporters at the Kumeyaay Lake and Campground, Mission Trails Regional Park, and hoisted the national flag of the Kumeyaay-Diegueño Nation.

The event began at 1 p.m. with Kumeyaay tribal elder Jane Dumas giving the invocation — she spoke to the crowd of about 200 people in both English and her native Kumeyaay language (San Diego's original language).

JANE DUMAS
Jane Dumas addresses the crowd just prior to beginning her opening traditional prayer.

JANE DUMAS DAY APRIL 28TH — Later in the event, Jane was honored with an official Proclamation from the City of San Diego declaring April 28, 2012, as "Jane Dumas Day."

SAN DIEGO BIRD SINGERS HONORING

Kumeyaay bird singers followed Jane's blessing and performed several traditional Southern Californian songs. The Kumeyaay singers are pictured singing and shaking gourd rattles during their performance.

CALIFORNIA BIRD DANCERS

Several dancing women, bird dancers, accompanied the men.

LEROY ELLIOTT

Tribal Chairman Leroy Elliott, Manzanita Band of the Kumeyaay Nation, talked to the audience during his song sets, including the special relationship Kumeyaay culture holds for the land.

Mr. Elliott is a fluent Native speaker of his Kumeyaay language, a Kumeyaay bird song leader, and he is dedicated to the preservation and teaching of his Kumeyaay traditions and Southern California American Indian tribal culture.

HOWKA

After the songs, Chairman Elliott greeted Jane Dumas during a community Indian-style walk around.

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About 200 people attended the event.

KUMEYAAY FLAG

Local Kumeyaay tribal members display the flag just prior to hoisting it at the park for the first time. Pictured (l-r): Louis Guassac, Anita Uqualia (Viejas), Jamie LaBrake (Sycuan), Leroy Elliot (Manzanita).

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Chairman Elliott attached the flag, Jamie LaBrake hoisted it to the top, Anita and Louis helped guide it upwards.

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Picture perfect, the Kumeyaay-Diegueño flag is a symbol of Native American pride and commemorates the 12,000-year Kumeyaay history in the County of San Diego.

JANE DUMAS DAY, April 28th

The City Council of San Diego, presented by Councilmember Marti Emerald, proclaimed April 28, 2012, as Jane Dumas Day on behalf of the people of San Diego for her decades of proud service to San Diego's American Indian community and greater region.

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Senior Park Ranger Sanford read the Proclamation and presented Jane with her official City of San Diego proclamation award.

JANE DUMAS DAY

Today was Jane's special day...

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Proclamation of the City Council
City of San Diego

Jane Dumas Day

April 28, 2012

Presented by Councilmember Marti Emerald

WHEREAS, Jane Dumas, of the Jamul Band of Kumeyaay Indians, is a well-known and highly revered elder, teacher, and leader both in the American Indian community and throughout San Diego County; AND

WHEREAS, Jane’s mother, Isabel Thing, was a Kuseyaay, or medicine woman, who passed her vast knowledge of herbs, plants, and ancient remedies down to her daughter.  For decades, Jane has dedicated herself to keeping alive her first language of Kumeyaay by sharing her impressive repertoire of Kumeyaay culture and medicine with other Kumeyaay, as well as with the general public, at special events and speaking engagements; AND

WHEREAS, Jane helped found the San Diego American Indian Health Center in 1981, where she worked first as a home health aide and then as a traditional medicine specialist.  Jane joined the Board of the Indian Human Resource Center in 1986; AND

WHEREAS, in conjunction with the reopening of father Junipero Serra Trail Road in 1993, Jane took part in the naming and blessing ceremony for the Kumeyaay Lake and Campground (formerly known as Hollins Lake).  Later that year, she participated in the groundbreaking and blessing ceremony for Mission Trails’ new Visitor and Interpretive Center and, in 1995, for the Center’s Grand Opening celebration; AND

WHEREAS, Jane shared her knowledge of Kumeyaay culture in the filming of the “Trails of the Kumeyaay” video, produced in 1994, as well as in the “Stewardship Through the Ages” video, produced in 1999.  Both of these excellent educational films are shown in the theater of the Mission Trails Visitor Center and are viewed by thousands of school children and people each year; AND

WHEREAS, Jane Dumas was inducted into the San Diego County Women’s Hall of Fame in 2002 and is recognized as the catalyst for Mission Trails Regional Park acquiring a Kumeyaay-Diegueño Nation flag to fly proudly at the Kumeyaay Lake and Campground in her honor from here on out; AND

WHEREAS, Jane continues to share her expertise in medicinal plants by teaching Ethnobotany classes at Sycuan’s Kumeyaay Community College.  It is her hope that the knowledge and traditions of her people will continue to be passed down from generation to generation and never be forgotten; NOW THEREFORE

BE IT PROCLAIMED, by the Council of the City of San Diego, that this Council, for and on behalf of the people of San Diego, does hereby declare April 28, 2012 to be “Jane Dumas Day” in the City of San Diego and commends Jane Dumas for her proud service to San Diego’s American Indian community and to our greater region.

Signed by the Mayor and eight council members as approved April 24, 2012.

City of San Diego seal attached, framed and presented to Jane April 28, 2012 during the Kumeyaay-Diegueño flag raising, Mission Trails Regional Park, Kumeyaay Lake and Campground.

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