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Approximately 289 of the 394 enrolled members live on the reservation. [5] The reservation is home to scrub oaks and chaparral. The name "Viejas" comes from the Spanish name for their land, "El Valle de Las Viejas" or "The Valley of the Old Women." [3] In 1973, 121 of the 127 enrolled members lived on the reservation. [2]
Viejas Casino & Resort is a hotel casino and outlet center owned by the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians in Alpine, California.The casino has over 2,000 slot machines, [1] up to 86 table games, three restaurants, a deli, bingo, an off-track betting facility, a lounge, the largest outdoor ice rink in Southern California [2], concert venues and multiple indoor and outdoor meeting spaces.
The Capitan Grande Reservation is a Kumeyaay Indian reservation in San Diego County, California, jointly controlled by the Barona Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians and Viejas Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians.
In 2001, Intoxicados released its first album, Buen día (Good day), which had a similar style to Viejas Locas, but also incorporated other genres such as punk and reggae. In Intoxicados' first concert, in Cemento in 2001, the band played mostly Viejas Locas songs with some of their own.
In 1875, the tribe, along with the Viejas Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians, controlled the Capitan Grande Reservation, which consisted of barren, uninhabitable mountain lands. The El Capitan Reservoir , forcibly purchased from the two tribes to provide water for San Diego , submerged what habitable land existed on the reservation.
Viejas may refer to: Viejas Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians, a federally recognized Native American tribe Viejas Casino, Alpine, California, United States, a hotel-casino owned by the tribe; Viejas Mountain, California; Viejas Valley, California; Viejas Arena, a sports and music venue on the San Diego State University campus
Michael Connolly, from San Diego, pronounces Kumeyaay. The Kumeyaay, also known as 'Iipai-Tiipai or by the historical Spanish name Diegueño, is a tribe of Indigenous peoples of the Americas who live at the northern border of Baja California in Mexico and the southern border of California in the United States.
1 Band members. Toggle Band members subsection. 1.1 Former members. 2 Discography. ... Viejas & Nuevas tragedias (2003) Sin Perdón (2006) El Valle Condena (2009 ...