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Welcome from the San Diego Local Planning Committee

Howka! Miiyu! Greetings from Native San Diego!

The Local Planning Committee (LPC) is honored and eager to welcome you to San Diego for the 41st Annual NIEA Convention. Our theme, “Investing in Youth for Our Vision of Tomorrow,” acknowledges the support provided to our youth today that will forever make an impact on our tribal nations.

We are excited to welcome and share traditions of California native peoples during this year’s convention. California is home to 107 tribal nations, San Diego alone recognizes 18 tribal nations – the largest number of tribes in any county in the United States. San Diego is home to approximately 22,000 of the state’s American Indians. We are honored to share our rich and diverse cultures that will be showcased during our culture night and throughout the conference. There will be singing, dancing, and many cultural experiences to enjoy. Plan to come early to beautiful Southern California. We are excited to be adding a golf tournament this year.

We are looking forward to welcoming the National Indian Education Association members to San Diego for some rich cultural experiences, motivating educational practices, and the synergy that happen s when so many people are gathered for a common goal – Indian Education.

Please come and gather with us from the shores of the Pacific Ocean through the mountains to the desert of Southern California, on our native lands for over 10,000 years to help make the 2010 NIEA Convention one of the best!

LPC Co-Chair Chairman Johnny Hernandez, Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel

LPC Co-Chair Tishmall Turner, Luiseño

About the Logo "Soaring into the Future"
Murdoc Gil Mojado Acjachemen/Luiseño/Cupeño

Born May 2, 1974, and raised in North San Diego County. Graduated from Ramona High School in 1992. Served four years in the U.S. Marine Corps. Attended Art Institute of San Diego (AISD) and graduated 2003 with a BA in Advertising, Arts and Sciences. Employed with Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association (SCTCA), after-school Resource Center program for Native youth in 2001. Worked as the graphic designer for Hi Rez Digital Solutions, a subsidiary of SCTCA in 2003, until moving on as a freelance graphic designer in 2006, creating advertising media for local small businesses, Native American businesses, and Native youth programs. Murdoc is the Handicap Chairman/Treasurer of Southern Tribes Indian Golf Club, a local Native golfing club, and has since created his own graphic design company, Murdoc Mojado Design.

“Investing in Youth for Our Vision of Tomorrow”

The artwork for the 41st Annual NIEA convention logo is an interpretation of the beauty of San Diego and Southern California. At first glance you notice a golden eagle in flight, sacred to the Luiseño, Diegueño, Cupeño and Kumeyaay people of San Diego County. The eagle hoists the San Diego landscape on its wings, from the beauty of the Pacific Ocean, to the mountains of the inland county, to the open deserts in the east. San Diego’s rich landscape is a key element as to why it is a sought out vacation destination. In the background is a basket with a rattlesnake pattern, such baskets used by the Native people to gather and store food. These baskets made from different grasses grown in the grasslands of San Diego. They are tightly woven and are still created by the Native people today. Below the golden eagle are acorns and a rattle. Acorns, a main food staple are used in making acorn pudding. The rattle is the musical instrument used by the Native people of San Diego, when singing their soulful Bird Sings. Encircled within a basket border, are a few elements representing San Diego and its Native people, whom to this day, embrace its rich landscape and beauty.

About San Diego

San Diego — Home to a Thriving Indian Community San Diego, aka “America’s Finest City,” is a world-famous tourist hot spot with its rich U.S. history, expansive wildlife offerings and bustling downtown area. But what many visitors may not know is that San Diego is also home to the largest concentration of American Indian reservations in the U.S., the highest number of Indian gaming casinos and one of the largest urban Indian populations in the state — proof that the once-forgotten Indian people here are alive and

Long before the first Spanish explorer set eyes on its pristine coastline, San Diego had been home to the Kumeyaay-Diegueño, Luiseño, Cupeño, and Cahuilla peoples for thousands of years. After colonization began, the Indians of San Diego County suffered the many atrocities experienced by other Native peoples throughout the state, including continuous displacement, impoverishment, and death by disease that brought them to the brink of extinction.

To save their heritage, culture, and dignity, the Indians of San Diego endured Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. government encroachment — only to become perceived by many San Diegan residents as an invisible people who lived in the past. Not until the development and acceptance of Indian gaming did once impoverished and neglected tribal communities begin to obtain access to resources that benefited their lives and living conditions. Furthermore, by sharing their good fortune with non-gaming tribes, urban Indian organizations, and their surrounding communities, gaming tribes became one of the biggest benefactors to the area — ensuring that San Diego’s Indian community will continue to grow strong and visible as it presses on into the future.

Federally Recognized Tribes/Reservations in San Diego County:
1) Barona Band of Mission Indians, 2) Cahuilla Band of Mission Indians, 3) Campo Kumeyaay Nation 4) Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians 5) Inaja-Cosmit Band of Indians 6) Jamul Indian Village, a Kumeyaay Nation 7) La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians 8) La Posta Band of Mission Indians, 9) Los Coyotes Band of Mission Indians 10) Manzanita Band of the Kumeyaay Nation 11) Mesa Grande Band of Mission Indians 12) Pala Band of Cupeño Indians 13) Pauma Band of Luiseño Indians 14) Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians 15) San Pasqual Band of Diegueño Mission Indians of California 16) Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueño Indians 17) Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation 18) Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians

Casinos in San Diego County:
1) Barona Resort & Casino 2) Casino Pauma 3) Golden Acorn Casino 4) Harrah’s Rincon Casino & Resort 5) La Jolla Trading Post & Casino 6) La Posta Casino 7) Pala Casino Spa & Resort 8) Santa Ysabel Resort and Casino 9) Sycuan Casino and Resort 10) Valley View Casino 11) Viejas Casino