Mii Anmak Nyamak Kweyiwpo / Jwanya Kumiai Kuwak: Huellas del pasado hacia el futuro / Cuentos kumiai de Baja California / Footsteps From the Past into the Future / Kumeyaay Stories of Baja California is a trilingual collection in Kumeyaay, Spanish, and English built from a long collaboration among Kumiai speakers in Baja California, community members, translators, educators, and researchers.

The project began with language-documentation work led by linguists Margaret Field and Amy Miller and supported initially by the National Science Foundation. Rather than treating speakers merely as research subjects, the team distributed digital recorders and encouraged community members to choose whom and what to record. Narratives, conversation, instructional talk, and traditional stories were gathered across several Baja Kumiai communities, preserving different varieties of the language and the artistry of the people speaking it.

The volume brings the voices of five Kumeyaay narrators into a three-language format designed to remain useful on both sides of the U.S.–Mexico border: for heritage-language communities, for future generations of Kumeyaay readers and speakers, and for students of oral literature, anthropology, linguistics, folklore, and Indigenous cultural continuity. Stories of Coyote, Frog, Wildcat, family, place, and community make the book not simply a record of endangered language but a living collection of verbal art.