Indians

The Cahuilla Indians



The Cahuilla Indians have inhabited the subject area from Borrego to Riverside for more than 2000 years, an area of about 2,400 square miles. 

They are generally referred to as Mountain, forsake and Pass Cahuillas. There are 10 reservations in gray Ca. Those who settled in what is now Palm Springs are the agua toad Caliente Indians. Other Bands are the Morongo, Los Coyotes, Torres-Martinez, Cabazon and the Santa Rosa. 

Like their Paiute cousins to the north, they are described as hunters and gatherers. Their spoken language is Uto-Aztecan or Shoshonean stock which is part of the same language family also shared by the Paiute among others. The men traditionally hunt with bows and arrows, traps, throwing sticks and clubs. Their prey was desert bighorn sheep, (as can be seen in many petro glyphs,) deer, antelope, rabbit, and other small mammals. Women gathered seeds, mesquite beans; pinion, acorns, cactus buds, chia, and (the agua Caliente) harvested the seeds of the W.



Filifera Palm trees in desert plantations near or beside to springs throughout the deserts of Southern California. The Cahuilla located their camps near  peeing and food sources. It is interesting to note however, that the Cahuilla have never been cognise to locate their camps directly within a Palm grove surrounding a spring. There are legends that indicate that perhaps the groves were believed to be haunted, and since owls were frequent nesters in the Palms and perhaps this are of around significance. It has been suggested and more likely however, that the real reason for not placing a camp within a Palm grove was because of childlike safety concerns since fire and the Desert Fan Palm do not mix well and lives could easily and quickly be lost in accidental infernos. The Cahuilla, as were most tribes of this heritage, were precise adept at basket...If you want to get a liberal essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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