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Carmen Lucas, Courtney Ann Coyle, Nick Doose, Rachel Ruston,  Left to right Nick Doose, Brian Williams, Carmen Lucas, Courtney Ann Coyle, and Rachel Ruston at Laguna Meadow Carmen Lucas, an Elder in the Kwaaymii Laguna Band of Indians has worked in the field of Cultural Resource Management as a Native American Monitor, consultant, and educator for nearly thirty years to protect tribally significant sites. She and the multidisciplinary team of Courtney Ann Coyle, Nick Doose, Rachel Ruston, and Brian Williams are receiving this award for their precedent-setting 354-page illustrated report about Ah-Ha’ Mut-ta-ti’ e (Water Mountains), a Kwaaymii/Kumeyaay sacred ancestral place centered around and up to the venerated peaks of Laguna Mountain in the Cleveland National Forest. They spent five years researching, conferring with other Indigenous people, collecting oral histories, and writing about this remote preserve. State historic preservation officials who received the report concur that the mostly undeveloped area, which sustains ongoing tribal spiritual life and practices, legends, shared wisdom, and daily sustenance, is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The far-reaching report could be a model for other tribal lands and preserves, especially because, as the authors state, it “celebrates the tribal cultural history of the Laguna Mountain area…by lifting the tribal voice.”
 Laguna Meadow  Storm Canyon. All photos by Sandé Lollis |
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