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The Cahuilla Reservation) is located in Riverside County near the town of The reservation includes Cahuilla, California , [ 6 ] where the Cahuilla Casino is located. [ citation needed ] The reservation is 18,884 acres (76.42 km 2 ), with 16,884 acres (68.33 km 2 ) owned by individual tribe members.
The Cahuilla creation story tells of the origin of the world, the death of god (Mukat), and the consequences of that death for humans (e.g., the need for death, social roles, and so forth). It also describes the basic concepts of supernatural power and its proper use in the contemporary world.
The Cahuilla have intermarried with non-Cahuilla for the past century. A high proportion of today's Cahuilla tribal members have mixed ancestry, especially Spanish and African American . People who have grown up in the tribe's ways and identify culturally with the Cahuilla may qualify for official tribal membership by the tribe's internal rules.
The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation is a federally recognized tribe of the Cahuilla, located in Riverside County, California, United States. [3] The Cahuilla inhabited the Coachella Valley desert and surrounding mountains between 5000 BCE and 500 CE. With the establishment of the reservations, the ...
Lake Cahuilla is believed to have been full six times in the last millennium: roughly the periods of 930 to 966, 1007 to 1070, 1192 to 1241, 1486 to 1503, 1618 to 1636, and 1731 to 1733.
Golden Checkerboard (1965) is a book by Ed Ainsworth [nb 1] about the mid-20th century economic conditions of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of Palm Springs, California and the history of the 99-year lease law, which enabled them to commercially develop tribal-owned lands.
The Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians is a federally recognized tribe of Cahuilla Indians, located in Imperial and Riverside counties in California. [ 5 ] [ 4 ] Their autonym is Mau-Wal-Mah Su-Kutt Menyil , [ 6 ] which means "among the palms, deer moon."
Marigold Linton (born 1936) is a cognitive psychologist and member of the Morongo Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians. In 1964, she became the first Native American to earn a doctorate in psychology. [1] [2] In 1974, she co–founded the National Indian Education Association. Her research in long-term memory is widely cited in psychology.