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Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla Indians

Native American Nation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ7419872 ↗
Source-derived summary

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

Reservation

The Santa Rosa Indian Reservation, not to be confused with the Santa Rosa Rancheria, is a reservation in Riverside County in the Santa Rosa Mountains, near the town of Anza. It is 11,092 acres (44.89 km2) acres large. It was established in 1907.

Government

The tribe's headquarters is located on the Santa Rosa Indian Reservation. Steven Estrada is their current tribal chairperson.

History

The federal government closely supervised Cahuilla after 1891. Government schools were opened for Cahuilla children and Protestant missionaries moved onto their reservation. During the 20th century, the tribe supported itself through cattle grazing and wage labor. Many members of the Santa Rosa band do not live on the reservation.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla Indians” as native American Nation. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1907, 1891—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Santa, Rosa and Band can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as native American Nation. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7419872. Authority coordinates are 33.556, -116.529. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1907 and 1891.

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This entry incorporates text from “Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla Indians” 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.