Kumeyaay conservancy may help purchase Gregory Canyon area sites

The Pala Band of Mission Indians is Luiseno, but a land conservancy founded by the Kumeyaay, the other main indigenous people of San Diego County, may be utilized to purchase the Gregory Mountain and Medicine Rock sites which are considered sacred by the Pala band.

“We could step in and help do that for them, absolutely,” said Louis Guassac of the Mesa Grande reservation, who is a board member of the Kumeyaay-Diegueno Land Conservancy (KDLC).

Guassac gave an overview of the Kumeyaay-Diegueno Land Conservancy during the San Diego Association of Governments’ Borders Committee meeting May 27. The...