Cahuilla Indian Tribe

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near ten reservations in southern California. The Cahuilla language is classified in the cupan subgroup of the takicfamily of uto-Aztecan languages. Although it had nearly become extinct, efforts are now underway through language programs for Cahuilla children to maintain its use. Because of their inland location, the Cahuilla were directly influenced by the Europeans later than other more western groups. First contact with the Spanish was indirect through other Indian groups where missions wee established and probably mostly involved the spread of European diseases to the Cahuilla. Regular contact began in about 1819 and led to the Cahuilla’s adopting farming and cattle raising, working for Spanish, and converting to roman Catholicism. In 1863, the Cahuilla were seriously depopulated by a smallpox epidemic. The reservation period began in 1877, and since that time and until last twenty years the Cahuilla have been generally dependent on and under the influence of the federal ...

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