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Ramona Band of Cahuilla

native Cahuilla Indians in Southern California

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 15, 2024
Entity authorityQ7289903 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Ramona Band of Cahuilla is a federally recognized tribe of Cahuilla Indians, located in Riverside County, California.

Reservation

The Ramona Indian Reservation was founded in 1893. It is about 560 acres (2.3 km2) large, located in Anza, California at the foot of Thomas Mountain. The land was originally Sauppalpisa territory and was a traditional gathering place for Cahuilla ceremonies.

Government

The tribe's headquarters is located in Anza, California. Their current Tribal Chairwoman is Danae Hamilton Vega.

See also

Mission Indians

Notes

References

Eargle, Jr., Dolan H. California Indian Country: The Land and the People. San Francisco: Tree Company Press, 1992. ISBN 0-937401-20-X.

Pritzker, Barry M. A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

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The public source identifies “Ramona Band of Cahuilla” as native Cahuilla Indians in Southern California. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ramona, Band and Cahuilla.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ramona Band of Cahuilla” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.