Kumeyaay
Americannoun
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an Indigenous group living in northern Baja California in Mexico and southern California in the United States.
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a member of this group.
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the language spoken by this group.
adjective
Example Sentences
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For millennia before the Spanish showed up and built a dam to serve their first Alta California mission, the Kumeyaay lived in these hills.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2025
The tiny community of about 100 families includes members of the Kumeyaay tribe and sits across the border from an equally sparsely populated desert near the California town of Jacumba Hot Springs.
From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2024
At the foot of Mount Kuchumaa, a mountain sacred to Indigenous Kumeyaay people, they launched the Essene School of Life, named after a biblical-era Jewish sect.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2021
San Diego County has the highest number of reservations in the country, and the Kumeyaay people have lived on this land long before the border came.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2021
In one chapter, a native Kumeyaay tells Gibson that the land where the prototype site was built was once the territory of his tribe.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2020
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