The San Luis Rey Story Project: ‘Atáaxum Today

FAIN: RJ-276610-20

San Luis Rey Mission Indian Foundation (Vista, CA 92081-6314)
Carrie Lopez (Project Director: May 2020 to October 2022)

Retention of one full-time and two part-time participants working on phase one of the San Luis Story Project, a tribal ethnographic history of the ‘Atáaxum (the People) or Payo´mkawichum (People of the West), who are referred to as Luiseños today.

The San Luis Rey Story Project is a project to tell the history of our ancestors and provide more contextual education to our Tribal members; develop strategies and tools in “recapturing Tribal knowledge”; and provide assistance in developing our “voice” to communicate our unique Tribal perspectives. The overall project includes three phases: (1) composing our story and significance of our ancestors, as well as developing a modern mechanism to share this knowledge; (2) the internal engagement series of educating our Tribal community; and, (3) the launch of a public engagement series to share the importance of our Native story, the story of ‘Atáaxum “the People,” known as the “the Luiseño People” today.