Saturday, August 11

Riding in on the Waves at Midnight

August, 2001

San Diego, California

The annual Grunion Festival was held on a typical warm sunny day in July at Pacific Beach. Organizers and performers from the Juaneno Band of Mission Indians Acjachemem Nation and the Kumeyaay Nation organized a wonderful afternoon. People from near and far, gathered for the annual Grunion Festival, which is a revival of a tradition of the Southern California Indians. "Today is the event that brings the ocean, the desert and the mountain people together," said Joyce Perry, "a social event for the indigenous people and an educational event for the non-indigenous people. This is Abel's vision. He has been doing this for a long time.
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