A crowd-sourced database mentions a handful of local indigenous people’s sites and artifacts from the past. Native American leaders say the omissions prevent people from learning about their collective history.
for San Diego County and you’ll see a lot about Spanish colonial, early American settler and U.S. military pasts.
For some of the descendants of the four major tribes that once populated the San Diego region — the Luiseno, Cahuilla, Cupeno and Kumeyaay — the historical marker database snub is typical and met with resignation. “The first governor of California, Peter Burnett, issued bounties on the heads of native people,” Rodriguez said. “Fifty cents for a child, $2.50 for a woman, $5 for men. Over $1.5 million was paid off. Our numbers prior to California becoming a state were over 85% native to 15% non-native. Within 20 years, the numbers had dropped by over 80%.”
The historical markers database for San Diego County does include an entry for an old Kumeyaay natural kitchen, pictographs and the ancient Kumeyaay village Panhe. The area had two springs, a female creek and a male one. Carrico said if a Kumeyaay woman wanted to have a son, she would drink from the male spring and vice versa. The land’s oak trees’ acorns were a major food source for the tribe. They traded shell beads.
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