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Map of the Costanoan languages and major villages. Over 50 villages and tribes of the Ohlone (also known as Costanoan) Native American people have been identified as existing in Northern California circa 1769 in the regions of the San Francisco Peninsula, Santa Clara Valley, East Bay, Santa Cruz Mountains, Monterey Bay and Salinas Valley.
After the band was displaced from Capitan Grande, this new reservation was created by executive order in 1934. The reservation is about 1,609 acres (6.51 km 2) large. Approximately 289 of the 394 enrolled members live on the reservation. [5] The reservation is home to scrub oaks and chaparral.
In 1885, United States Secretary of War William C. Endicott, heading the Board of Fortifications, issued a report necessitating the coastal defense of San Francisco Bay.By September 1890, Colonel George Mendel, the army engineer officer in charge of defense construction in the San Francisco region, had selected for fortification a 73-acre (29.5 ha) tract of land near Point Lobos which belonged ...
The reservation consists of two geographically separate sections, with the main one in Indio, and the other in the city of Twenty-Nine Palms at The portion of the Twenty-Nine Palms Reservation ( 33°42′38″N 116°11′12″W / 33.71056°N 116.18667°W / 33.71056; -116.18667 ) in San Bernardino County was established in 1895 and ...
The Ewiiaapaayp Indian Reservation, formerly known as the Cuyapaipe Reservation (), is a federal Indian reservation located in the Laguna Mountains of southern East County, San Diego. [6] The reservation was created in 1891 by the US Congress.
As a direct evolution from that successful venture, they now run a profitable casino, as well as an off-reservation golf course. The Sycuan band is not the only San Diego-area band to operate significant commercial enterprises off-reservation. The Sycuan band purchased the downtown San Diego landmark U. S. Grant Hotel in 2003. [7]
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Location of San Manuel Reservation. San Manuel Reservation [7] is a federally recognized Indian reservation in San Bernardino County. Originally, it was 658 acres (266 ha) in size, [3] but has expanded to 800 acres (320 ha). Established in 1891, the reservation was named for Santos Manuel, a prominent tribal leader. [4]