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Cabazon (Spanish: Cabazón) [3] [4] is an unincorporated community in Riverside County, California, United States. Cabazon is on the Pacific Crest Trail . [ 5 ] In the 21st century, the area has become a tourist stop, due to the Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa and Desert Hills Premium Outlets .
The tribe came to public attention in 1987 when they won California v.Cabazon Band; prior to the U.S.Supreme Court's decision 480 U.S. 202 (1987), the tribe had been the subject of public attention, given claims about events involving John Philip Nichols, The Wackenhut Corporation, and the June 29, 1981 triple homicides of Alfred "Fred" Alvarez, Patricia Castro, and Ralph Boger.
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.
Eagle Mountain is a ghost town in the California desert in Riverside County founded in 1948 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser.The town is located at the entrance of the now-defunct Eagle Mountain iron mine, once owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad, then Kaiser Steel, and located on the southeastern corner of Joshua Tree National Park.
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A Bureau of Indian Affairs map of Indian reservations belonging to federally recognized tribes in the continental United States Legal/Statistical Area Description [ 2 ] Tribe(s)
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.
Anza is named after Juan Bautista de Anza, a Spanish officer who led the Anza expeditions into California.. It is estimated that the Cahuilla aboriginal tribes inhabited an area including what is today the Anza Valley more than two thousand years ago and encountered Europeans only as late as 1774, when a Spanish expedition in search of an overland route from Sonora to Alta California made its ...