Indigenous Regeneration

Indigenous Regeneration Founder Lacey Cannon and Founding Board Member Richard Bugbee have been working on a cool side brew. Check out the project!!!! Thank you to We Are Human Kind, the new owners and caretakers of The JACUMBA HotSprings Hotel and Lake for trusting us to do the revival in a good way. Come check it out! If we aren’t on the Farm…. You can find us on the Lake!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 . Happy World Water Day!!! . . Special thank you to everyone who has worked on this project with us!!!! . #jacumba #inoursparetime #mathakuum #wherethewaterbubblesup #revival #indigenousregeneration #sandiego #hotsprings #wearehumankind #jacumbahotel #jacumbahotsprings #laceandbug #nativeandcreative #waterislife #foodsovereignty #77nativeediblepalms #worldwaterday

Indigenous Regeneration and The Yumans Presents Kuhmii Uuyaaw (Elders Knowledge) . The Kumeyaay Cultural Revitalization and Healing Project explored and documented Kumeyaay Elders and their stories of how culture is used as a modality to combat substance abuse in San Diego tribal communities and can be utilized to enhance treatment outcomes as well as to reduce substance use and behaviors. This Kumeyaay Elders Series is supported by the MAT Access Points Project, which is funded through the Department of Health Care Services California MAT Expansion Project and is administered by The Center at Sierra Health Foundation. The Kumeyaay Elders Series was produced by Indigenous Regeneration Directed by Lacey Cannon, Nocturnes Films, Cyrus Sutton, Chris Alvarado, and Richard Bugbee. Filmed by; Cyrus Sutton, Nocturnes Films and Leia Marasovich A special thank you to the elders, team members and funders that made this project possible. @sanmanuelband @boh.ireland Please visit theyumans.com to access 9 other expanded elder interviews directed by @cyrus_sutton @indigenousregeneration and @the_yumans As well as some amazing language lessons made by Chris Alvarado . #kumeyaay #elderseries #storytelling #indigenoushistory #sandiego #native #elderswisdom #opioidaddiction #traditionalknowledge #healing #film #shortfilm #bipoc #indigenous #regeneration #ihc #tribalperspective

Sycuan Fashion Show 2022. “We’re beautiful, we’re talented , we’re still here! Thank you again to everyone who came out and supported @angelicalabrake and team along the way♥️ @sycfashionshow Designers: @starquilts (Aresta Paddock) @trapnative_ @disatootoosisdesign @joshmuse86 @rotreeredsky @phelps_15 @designsby_della Makeup/hair: @elev8te_makeup @welcometothehorrorshow @alyahbrown @susanjack24 @makeupbykat.y @whitecloudxhair @krownedbykyra @stepho130 @nativeessentials_inc Video by @icryfiji and @laceycannon Sponsored by @indigenousregeneration #werestillhere #kumeyaay #kumeyaaystories #sycuanfashionshow2022 #sycuan #indigenousregeneration #fashion #sandiego

What environmental issues matter to YOU? . Join Indigenous Regeneration’s Youth Environmental Leadership + PhotoVoice Program and learn how to turn your ideas into action. . Over 4 interactive Zoom sessions, youth will: Learn how communities create change Explore environmental issues impacting tribal communities Use photography and storytelling to share lived experiences Build leadership and advocacy skills Connect with other youth changemakers The first 25 participants to sign up receive FREE tickets to learning experiences across San Diego, including: San Diego Safari Park Museum of Us Scripps Institution of Oceanography San Diego Natural History Museum Ages 14–26 (but all ages welcome) No experience needed Limited spots available Sign up with link in bio…

B I R D next weekend! Join us! All welcome! Enjoy sunset on the farm with community, singing, dancing, playing, eating, sharing, and story! Saturday May 16th 5:30 - 8:30 . The Richard Bugbee Land Relationship Center in Valley Center. Link to RSVP is in the Bio links Address is in registration. . Come! . #birdsinging #waipuk #therichardbugbeelandrelationshipcenter #indigenousregeneration #community

We will be hosting a workshop by ‘Ataaxum Pomkwaan in collaboration with Rez Beats at the Richard Bugbee Land Relationship Center. . Join us for Art in Nature, a hands on workshop grounded in traditional ecological knowledge and creative practice. Participants will explore the land through a guided walk, reflection, and observation, then translate those experiences into their own lino print. This workshop is facilitated by Elybeth Sofia Alcantar, an Indigenous Mixteca artist, geographer, printmaker, and photographer working at the intersection of land, culture, and community based environmental practice. . Date: May 2 Time: 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM . Location: Address provided after registration Participants will create and take home their own print while building skills in observation, cultural connection, and artistic expression. . Space is limited. Register using the QR code on the flyer or the links in our bio. . #artinnature #linoprint #indigenousregeneration #indigenoushealing

Join us for a 4-part online series rooted in Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) and PhotoVoice. If you’ve ever wanted to understand how policy works, how advocacy takes shape, or how to begin writing policy, this series offers a clear starting point. Participants will identify community issues, document them through PhotoVoice, and learn how lived experience can inform policy. This is a foundation-building space focused on awareness, analysis, and skill development. Participants will have the opportunity next year to carry their ideas forward and develop them into real policy. Participants will be introduced to how public funding streams are structured and how youth-led ideas can align with future funding opportunities. . This class is led by Lacey Cannon, Executive Director of Indigenous Regeneration, trained in Substance Use Disorder Policy Advocacy through USC. And Alexxa Cassanova, Kumeyaay from San Pasqual, UCSD Program Coordinator at School of Public Health, Indigenous Advocacy, Tribal Wellness, Scholar SDSU . Date and Time Wednesday, May 27, 2026 at 7 PM Additional sessions will take place between June and December 2026 Location Online (registration required, link will be provided) . #partofthechange #ElevateYouthCA #choosechange #policy #advocate

At the end of last summer, we had the honor of hosting a camping trip at Jacumba Lake, a restoration project led by Indigenous Regeneration founder Lacey Cannon and guided by Elder Lahunt Richard Bugbee. . Over the course of those days, we spent time with IRG board member Dr. Stan Rodriguez and his son Raymond Martinez, learning how to make fish traps, quail traps, and tule boats. . We sat together around the fire, whittling and listening to stories of Jacumba Mountain and the creation story, under a sky full of stars. The youth swam, played, and moved freely across this place long known as mat ha wekum, (where the water bubbles up) . This gathering was originally planned as two separate campouts, but an early shift in weather led us to postpone the second portion until this summer. We are planning to return to complete the tule boats and paddle them across the lake, deepen our understanding of cattail and tule, use the fish traps to catch and prepare smoked fish, and continue learning together in community. We extend our gratitude to the Jacumba Hotel crew for granting permission for this campout. We look forward to continuing this work and holding more cultural programs at the lake. . Comment campout if you’d like to join! . #indigenousregeneration #jacumbalake #tuleboats #mathawekum #kumeyaay

Today at the Richard Bugbee Land Relationship Center we held a full day of experimentation and practice with Good Fire. . Dwelling on Carbon joined us to bring scientific measurement tools and support soil sampling that will be sent to the lab. This work is designed to document and demonstrate Traditional Ecological Knowledge through pre and post burn data. . Because we are operating on County land, a full broadcast burn was not possible this year with how extensive and timely burn plans are. Instead, through a burn permit with CAL FIRE, we implemented small circle burns that mimic broadcast fire patterns. These burns were designed to reach temperatures that avoid soil sterilization while still creating the heat and smoke conditions needed to support the germination of fire dependent plants such as hatepaaw ‘up - coyote tobacco. . We tested multiple approaches including seeding before the burn, seeding after the burn, and seeding after with topsoil cover. We will continue to monitor germination rates to understand which method is in best relationship with hatepaaw ‘up - coyote tobacco and track changes over time in water infiltration, soil biology, carbon, and organic matter. . Thank you to Indigenous Regeneration apprentices Raymond Martinez from Santa Ysabel Reservation and Ravel Rodriguez from Pala Reservation, and to all of our community members who showed up to participate in this work. Thank you to Raymond Martinez for sharing your fire knowledge with us, and to Lacey Cannon for passing on lessons you learned from lahunt Richard Bugbee. . Thank you to San Manuel Band of Mission Indians for supporting this day and to Levi Cannon from San Pasqual Reservation, currently in fifth grade, for creating this amazing and educational video. . Huge thank you to our land owner @boh.ireland for trusting us with this land and supporting burns like today! . #indigenousregeneration #goodfire #tek #therichardbugbeelandrelationshipcenter #sanmanuelcares

San Diego quail, especially California quail, offer a path toward food sovereignty that we think is worth exploring. They are drought tolerant, require minimal inputs, and reach maturity in 6 to 8 weeks, producing nutrient dense meat with 20 to 25 percent protein and eggs with 13 to 14 percent protein. This is small scale, land aligned protein that can be grown within community without dependence on outside systems. Bugbee always wanted to explore breeding quail in captivity as part of working around limited land access for trapping or hunting them. Thank you to the UCSD Urban Equity Farm Grant for supporting our chicken and quail pen, to Kumeyaay youth and San Pasqual community member Ash Cannon for the chicken coop design and buildout, to San Pasqual community member Mario Lopez for his contributions to the new quail pen, and to our farm interns (Raymond Martinez, Santa Ysabel and Ravel Rodriguez, Pala, lead farmer) who for helping build and bring these pens to life. . We are looking forward to exploring this system and to some delish bbq when prickly pear tuna and mesquite bean season arrives… 🤤 . Additionally this area is home to our compost cookin… where chicken pen clean outs become our next batch of compost for the garden….. . #foodsovereignty #californiaquail #therichardbugbeelandrelationshipcenter #paradisetribalfarm #indigenousregeneration

Saturday April 18th…. F I R E S I D E at The Richard Bugbee Land Relationship Center in Valley Center (Hellhole Canyon) . Please RSVP with link in bio for our food count. . All are welcome! ALL AGES…. Come hang and see our Tribal Farm and enjoy a beautiful evening of food, family, story, song and play! . Address is in RSVP form!

Join us at The Richard Bugbee Land Relationship Center (home to Paradise Tribal Farm) on Friday April 17th with @dwellingoncarbon . Link to register is in bio. . #goodfire #soilscience #scienceprovingTEK