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San Pasqual Band of Digueno Mission Indians of California
Category: Member Tribes
After investigating a number of San Pasqual families who had filed Indian homestead claims on a few small fields, the federal government decided to combine the holdings into a general reservation.
Plans were made to survey the site. However, in 1892, surveyor Cave Couts, Jr., accidentally located the reserved land one township north of the proposed reservation, in the rocky hills overlooking Lake Wohlford. The land was officially patented to the band in 1910. Yet it was only in the 1950s, after some 80 years of dispersal, that descendants of the original band began reconstituting the community in fear of losing the small reservation.
Most San Pasqual Indians did not relocate to the reservation. The rocky, arid terrain could not support them, and urban families feared losing the employment that helped place food on the table. But over time, increasing numbers of families established homes on the reservation, and a tribal hall was built to house meetings of the band.
Although the majority of tribal members have spent a significant part of their lives off the reservation, the last few decades has seen an increase in the number of tribal members living on the reservation. Many are tribal elders, seeking to retire in the warmth of the area. The reservation is now the site of the Valley View Casino, the tribe’s most important economic asset.
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