Cupeño
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FOUR DIRECTIONS
INSTITUTE Cupeño |
| Ethnie: | CUPEÑO |
| Language: | Southern Takic |
| Family: | Takic |
| Stock: | Uto-Aztecan |
| Phylum: | Aztec-Tanoan |
| Macro-Culture: | Chungichnich |
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| The Takic peoples arrived in southern California about 2,500 years ago. All were peaceful hunter/gatherer mountain and desert cultures. The Cupeño delineation was a result of the Spanish missionization which separated the tribe from the so called Cahuilla and Luiseño. They lived in the mountainous area about the headwaters of the San Luis Rey River but were evicted from their aboriginal territories in 1903. |
| Aboriginal Locations |
| 2 villages |
| Present Locations |
| PALA RESERVATION, Pala |
| Year | History |
| 1810 | Asistencias built near tribal territory |
| 1821 | Most of tribe indentured to Mexican feudal barons |
| 1850 | Revolt against property taxes at Cupeño village involving Cahuilla, Yuma, Cocopa |
| 1863 | Smallpox epidemic |
| 1903 | Cupeño evicted from Cupa to Pala |
| Year | Population | Source |
| 1700 | 750 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1770 | 750 | Bean estimate |
| 1800 | 750 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1890 | 224 | Bean estimate |
| 1900 | 200 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1910 | 150 | Census |
| 1973 | 150 | Persons claiming descent |
| 2000 | 200 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Cahuilla, Juaneño, Luiseño |
| Cupeño Sites |
| Eviction at Cupa http://members.home.net/ramero/eviction/eviction.htm |
| Historic Sites - Cupa http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/5views/5views1h17.htm |
| Indian Reservations in San Diego County http://www.acusd.edu/nativeamerican/reservations.html |
| Pala Band of Mission Indians http://www.palaindians.com/history.htm |
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