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Cahuilla Indians
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Cahuilla Indians
A look at the South-Central Californian tribe. Includes villages, hunting, foods, baskets and pottery, games and music, lineage, leaders and language.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) |
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1994
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"The Cahuilla is the name given to a group of south-central California Indians. The term is of uncertain origin but may be from their own word kawiya 'master, boss' (Bean 575). The Cahuilla area was topographically complex, comprised of mountain ranges interspersed by passes, canyons, valleys, and desert, with elevations from 11,000 feet in the San Bernardino Mountains to 273 feet below sea level at the Salton Sea. The Cahuilla occupied most of the area, from the summit of the San Bernardino Mountains in the north to Borrego Springs and the Chocolate Mountains in the south, a portion of the Colorado Desert west of Orocopia Mountain to the east, and the San Jacinto Plain near Riverside and the eastern slopes of Palomar mountain to the west.Cahuilla villages were usually situated in canyons or on alluvial fans near adequate sources of water and food materials..."
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