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Luiseno Indian Tribe History
Luiseño.
The southernmost Shoshonean
division in California, which received its name from San Luis
Rey, the most important Spanish mission in the territory of
these people. They form one linguistic group with the Aguas
Calientes, Juaneños, and
Kawia. They extended along
the coast from between San Onofre and Las Animas creeks, far
enough south to include Aguas Hedionda, San Marcos, Escondido,
and Valley Center. Inland they extended north beyond San Jacinto
river, and into Temescal creek; but they were cut off from the
San Jacinto divide by the Diegueños,
Aguas Calientes, Kawia, and Serranos. The former inhabitants of
San Clemente island also are said to have been Luiseños,
and the same was possibly the case with those of San Nicolas
island. Their population was given in 1856 (Ind.
Aff. Rep., 243) as between 2,500 and 2,800; in 1870, as
1,299; in 1885, as 1,142. Most of them were subsequently placed
on small reservations included under the Mission Tule River
agency, and no separate tribal count has been made. Their
villages, past and present, are Ahuanga, Apeche, Bruno's
Village, La Joya, Las Flores, Pala, Pauma, Pedro's Village, (?)
Potrero, Rincon, Saboba, San Luis Rey (mission), Santa Margarita
(?), Temecula, and Wahoma. Taylor (Cal. Farmer,
May 11, 1860) gives the following list of villages in the
neighborhood of San Luis Rey mission, some of which may be
identical with t:hose here recorded: Cenyowpreskel, Ehutewa,
Enekelkawa, Hamechuwa, Hatawa, Hepowwoo, Itaywiy, Itukemuk,
Milkwanen, Mokaskel, and Mootaevuhew.
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Handbook
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