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Los Coyotes Reservation) is located in northeastern San Diego County Of 400 enrolled tribal members, about 150 live on the reservation. [ 1 ] It was founded in 1889.
The Torres Martinez Indian Reservation is a federal reservation in Imperial and Riverside Counties, with a total area of 24,024 acres (9,722 ha). [5] It was established in 1876 [8] and was named for the village of Toro and the Martinez Indian Agency. [7]
The traditional Cahuilla territory was near the geographic center of Southern California. It was bounded to the north by the San Bernardino Mountains , [ 2 ] to the south by Borrego Springs and the Chocolate Mountains , to the east by the Colorado Desert , and to the west by the San Jacinto Plain and the eastern slopes of the Palomar Mountains .
The Cahuilla Reservation) is located in Riverside County near the town ofThe 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 Cupeño villages also showing Warner Springs for reference. Spaniards entered Cupeño lands in 1795 [5] and took control of the lands by the 19th century. After Mexico achieved independence, its government granted Juan José Warner, a naturalized American-Mexican citizen, nearly 45,000 acres (180 km 2) of the land on November 28, 1844.
Bean, Lowell John. "Cahuilla." Heizer, Robert F., volume ed. Handbook of North American Indians: California, Volume 8. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1978 ...
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According to interviews with Augustine Elders in the winter of 1924–1925, the tribe is of the Nanxaiyem clan of Pass Cahuilla.Francisco Nombre, a Desert Cahuilla ceremonial leader and keeper of traditional clan genealogy, stated that the Nanxaiyem migrated to the Coachella Valley around 1860 and their survivors settled at La Mesa, the flat land east of La Quinta, California.