The Kumeyaay Nation's traditional territory covers these three kinds of environments.
What is the coast, mountains and dessert?
100
This person came to San Diego on the San Salvador and claimed the land for Spain in 1542. "He named the land San Miguel."
Who is Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo?
100
Secularization Act of 1834 closes the _______________ and Mexico sells the land to individuals as a part of the land grants
What are the Missions?
100
This person purchases 800 acres of land by the water and calls this area "New Town."
Who is Alonzo Horton?
100
During this time period, there are very many rancheros and cows in San Diego.
What is the Mexican/American Agricultural Town Period?
200
There are different groups of people called the Kumeyaay band. Together, they are all called this.
What is the Kumeyaay Nation?
200
When these two people arrived in 1769, they built the first mission in Alta California to colonize the area for Spain as well as convert the natives to the Christian Religion.
Who are Gaspar de Portola and Father Junipero Serra?
200
In this year Mexico gains Independence from Spain and California is ruled by Mexico for the next 25 years.
What is 1821?
200
This person is known as the "Mother of Balboa Park." She planted 100 trees to Balboa Park and 300 trees to the city for 10 years.
Who is Kate Sessions?
200
During this time period, the Chargers football team moves from Los Angeles to San Diego.
What is the New Town/Modern Period?
300
One fourth to one third of the Kumeyaay diet was meat products. They would hunt these animals with bows made out of willow, hallasee, or "sinoww" oak.
What are deer, mountain sheep or rabbit?
300
This person renamed the land from San Miguel to San Diego.
Who is Sebastian Vizcaino?
300
In this year, California becomes the 31st state. Gold is discovered in California, which causes many people to move to the state.
What is 1850?
300
In 1915, this event changes San Diego. It brings many visitors to the city of San Diego, causing it to be a destination for many visitors by steamboat and by railroads. San Diego becomes known to the World.
What is The Panama-California Exposition?
300
Portola and Father Serra established the Presidio of San Diego in this year. It is a historic fort and the first permanent European Settlement on the Pacific Coast of the present day United States.
What is 1769, the Spanish Colonial Period?
400
This is an important staple in the Kumeyaay diet. They would mash this to make sha'wee with grinding stones. Once dried, this can be stored for many years.
What are acorns?
400
Less than a year after it was rebuilt, these people planned a revolt on the mission. The building was burnt and Father Jayme and another Spanish soldier was killed.
Who are the Kumeyaay?
400
Mexico continues giving land grants to establish _____________ in San Diego. Native Americans were forced to learn Spanish and work on the land.
What are Ranchos?
400
This reaches San Diego in 1885. The first train departed San Diego on November 15, and the first train arrived in San Diego from the east on November 21. Travel time across the country took one week.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
400
In this time period, the first people of San Diego lived from Oceanside to Arizona and all the way down to Ensanada.
What is the Kumeyaay Period?
500
This is the traditional Kumeyaay game, played around a fire. The point of the game is to get all 15 sticks on your team’s side.
What is Peon?
500
Between the years 1769 and 1828, this happened to the population of the Kumeyaay. At the end of the Spanish Colonial Period, there were only 1,711 Kumeyaay left in the San Diego area.
What is decreased?
500
This type of transportation helped bring many settlers from San Francisco to San Diego in the 1850s.
What are steamboats?
500
During this event, the entire park was occupied by the military, with 12,000 men and women recuperating or working in the VA Hospital.
What is World War 2?
500
During this time, the missions are established in Alta California. The Kumeyaay are forced to work on the mission lands or flee to the mountains and dessert.