Kumeyaay Elder Jane Dumas Keeps Language & Plant Lore Alive (fwd link)

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Kumeyaay Elder Jane Dumas Keeps Language & Plant Lore AliveAmerican Indian
Heritage Month 2013 Honoree

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

By Monica Medina <http://www.kpbs.org/staff/monica-medina/>

On a bright and clear weekend morning in early October, there’s a flutter
of activity at San Diego’sTecolote Nature
Center<http://www.sandiego.gov/park-and-recreation/parks/osp/tecolote/index.shtml>
as
staff get ready for an annual family activity, “Baskets and Botany.” The
one-day event, which has been held there since the mid-'90s, is a day for
families to share the environmental and cultural connections of Tecolote
Canyon.

[image: Jane Dumas, American Indian Heritage Month honoree for 2013 holds
white sage leaves to ward off evil
spirits.]<http://kpbs.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2013/10/29/Dumas2_t700.jpg?f40c0e74b997dbb01ce524758e0d04a31382c8af>

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Jane Dumas, American Indian Heritage Month honoree for 2013 holds white
sage leaves to ward off evil spirits.

It is also an opportunity to get a glimpse into
theKumeyaay<http://www.kumeyaay.com/about/4-kumeyaay-news/news-archive/608-jane-thing-dumas.html>
Tribe
ways, by discovering which
plants<http://www.kumeyaay.com/kumeyaay-history/2-articles/articles/56-local-edible-and-medicinal-plants.html>
are
used for food, medicine, and for everyday life of the Kumeyaay people, who
once made their home on the land the park now inhabits. And the nature
center has Jane
Dumas<http://www.kumeyaay.com/about/4-kumeyaay-news/news-archive/608-jane-thing-dumas.html>
to
thank for sparking the idea.

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http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/oct/29/tribal-elder-jane-dumas-keeps-language-plant-lore-/
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