Kumeyaay Information

Kumeyaay Community College is a tribal institution dedicated to the research of Kumeyaay traditional knowledge. Kumeyaay Community College is created and maintained by the sovereign power of the Kumeyaay people as an educational organization designed to teach the younger generations of the People as well and the non-Kumeyaay population at large. Kumeyaay Community College is dedicated to creating a program of superior education and academic training through Native people's worldview with an emphasis on the Kumeyaay perspective. Tribally defined educational needs are unique and embrace a variety of topics: language, culture, history, Indian law, political science, tribal and state relations, models of citizenship from around the world, Indigenous studies, models that foster direct youth participation in the social, economic, and political affairs of the nation. Kumeyaay Community College will engage in research, education, publishing, and linguistic preservation in order to continue the traditional knowledge of the Kumeyaay Nation. KCC primarily serves and relies on resources from the thirteen reservations of the Kumeyaay Nation situated in San Diego county: San Pasqual, Santa Ysabel, Mesa Grande, Inaja-Cosmit, Captain Grande, Barona, Viejas, Ewiiaapaayp, Sycuan, Jamul, Manzanita, La Posta, and Campo, as well as four principle Kumeyaay reservations on the opposite side of the U.S. - Mexican border: Juntas de Neji, San Jose de la Zorra, San Antonio Necua, and La Huerta.