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The Pauma Band of Luiseño Mission Indians of the Pauma and Yuima Reservation is a federally recognized tribe of Luiseño Indians in San Diego County, California. [3] A total of five other federally recognized tribes of Luiseño are located in southern California.
The Pauma massacre occurred in December 1846, at Pauma Valley north of Escondido, California. Luiseño Indians killed eleven Mexicans, Californio lancers who had stolen horses from them. The action was related to a series of regional conflicts during the Mexican–American War and followed the Battle of San Pasqual in California.
The Luiseño Indians murdered the eleven Californios from Pico's forces in retaliation, in what became known as the Pauma Massacre. When the Mexican General José María Flores in Los Angeles learned about this challenge to Mexican authority, he sent José del Carmen Lugo from San Bernardino with a force of men to capture and execute the tribal ...
Thorn, a member of the Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians in the Pauma Valley north of San Diego, used her childhood exposure to art when she got a job in a gallery in Waikiki in Honolulu in 1988 ...
The Pauma Band apprehended the thieves and sought to punish them and initially let them off with a warning. However, an American present at the trial successfully convinced the Luiseño to execute them, leading to the execution of all Californio thieves known to the Californios as the Pauma Massacre .
Dixon is a member of the Pauma Band of Luiseno Mission Indians and would commute to Palomar from the Pauma and Yuima Reservation. [2] [8] She has also served at least two terms as chair of the tribe, [2] including in 1983. [9] In 2000, she made a draft on a still-unpublished children's book on the Luiseño. [1]
The Pala Indian Reservation is located in the middle of San Luis Rey River Valley in northern San Diego County, California, east of the community of Fallbrook, and has been assigned feature ID 272502. [clarification needed] Historic variant names used to describe the area include Mission Indian Reservation and Mission Indian Reserve.
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