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The Agua Caliente Indian Reservation occupies 126.706 km 2 (48.921 sq mi) in the Palm Springs area, including parts of the cities of Palm Springs, Cathedral City, and Rancho Mirage. The total population living on its territory was 21,358 as of the 2000 census , although few of these are registered tribal members.
[8] [9] The Tonga Hut, Los Angeles's oldest tiki bar, offered customers a Grog Log Challenge: to drink, within a year, all 78 cocktails whose recipes are printed in the Grog Log. [10] [11] Two years later Berry wrote the chapter on tropical drinks, called "Mixologists and Concoctions", in Sven Kirsten's influential The Book of Tiki. [4]
Pester traveled west and, after a year in Hawaii, [3] settled, in about 1916, in Tahquitz Canyon, near Palm Springs, California, part of the ancestral home of the Cahuilla people. His presence was accepted by local people, and he built himself a palm hut beside a stream and palm grove. [6] Pester was a vegetarian. [7]
The "Salton Riviera" became a thriving resort destination deemed the next Palm Springs. Hollywood celebrities and politicians flocked to the chic desert oasis, making it one of the most popular ...
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Agua Caliente Reservation in 1928 Agua Caliente Band signage in downtown Palm Springs Location of Agua Caliente Reservation. The Agua Caliente Indian Reservation was founded on May 15, 1876 [5] through Executive Order signed by President Ulysses S. Grant covering 31,610 acres (12,790 ha).
Golden Checkerboard (1965) is a book by Ed Ainsworth [nb 1] about the mid-20th century economic conditions of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of Palm Springs, California and the history of the 99-year lease law, which enabled them to commercially develop tribal-owned lands.