Monday, November 3, 2008
What make's you a Pechanga????
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. Complete Story
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All of which has NO relevance to being Pechanga according to the tribal council.
One land, One tribe?
If the Pechanga tribe is a subset of the Temecula people as a slim majority on the enrollment committee claimed, then why does my enrollment card, that was valid and recognized by Pechanga until March 2006, say "Temecula Band of Luiseno Mission Indians?"
Does that mean that everyone with an enrollment card that says Temecula should be kicked out of the tribe?
I guess that would mean the whole tribe should be kicked out as I am sure, unless they have reissued enrollment cards that say Pechanga, that everyone else still in the tribe have enrollment cards that say Temecula Band!
Also as T'eetilawuncha points out, Pechanga's own television commercial that ran for months and months, has the narrator saying, "Pechanga, one land one tribe."
So Pechanga's own P.R. piece contradicts what the incompetant and/or dishonest slim majority on the enrollment committee claims that there were different kinds of Indians living on the Pechanga reservation when it was created in 1882 and in the Temecula aboriginal village that the people were evicted from in 1875.
Note: in the enrollment committee's 2006 ruling against us, the descendants of Paulina Hunter, the committee acknowledges that we have a land patent from the federal government as Temecula Indians but that our allotment on the Pechanga reservation is not good enough to qualify us for tribal membership.
But if we were of a different tribe, then it would have been noted in the allotment records for example, Jose Antonio Sal, allottee number 68, is listed as a Pala Indian.
On the other hand our ancestor, Paulina Hunter is listed as Head of Family, the same designation as a lot of other Temecula Pechanga land allottees.
The point is, that the names Pechanga and Temecula historically have been used interchangeably.
AS I STATED ABOVE AND PECHANGA'S OWN P.R. COMMERCIAL POINTS OUT, "ONE LAND, ONE TRIBE!"
Didn't our tribe once refer to ourselfs as "the Temecula Band of Mission Indians, sometimes refered as Pechanga (not sure of the exact wording, but the sometimes refered is correct I'm pretty sure. The main idea here is that we were Not always called Pechanga in our own documents.
Yes, below is the actual wording of the preamble (introduction) to the constitution and bylaws:
"We, the members of the Pechanga Indian Reservation, and Temecula Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of California, sometimes referred to as the Pechanga Band of Mission Indians, hereinafter referred to as the "the Band", in order to promote and protect our customs, rights, and interest, and common welfare, do hearby adopt this Constitution and Bylaws. This Constitution and Bylaws will supersede any Bylaws and Constitution written in the past."
Below is what is written on the actual title page of the constitution and bylaws:
CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS
Adopted by the Pechanga General Council December 10, 1978
TEMECULA BAND OF LUISENO MISSION INDIANS
PECHANGA INDIAN RESERVATION
est. 1882
Also, the official seal says "Temecula Band of Luiseno Mission Indians, Pechanga Reservation, Temecula, California."
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