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The Luiseño or Payómkawichum are an Indigenous people of California who, at the time of the first contacts with the Spanish in the 16th century, inhabited the coastal area of southern California, ranging 50 miles (80 km) from the present-day southern part of Los Angeles County to the northern part of San Diego County, and inland 30 miles (48 km).
Lorena Lucille Majel Dixon was a Luiseño Indian that lived on and was an integral part of the Pauma Indian Reservation. [1] Her parents were educated at Sherman Indian Boarding School.
Pablo Tac (c. 1822–1841) was a Luiseño (Quechnajuichom also spelled "Qéchngawichum") Indian and indigenous scholar who provided a rare contemporary Native American perspective on the institutions and early history of Alta California.
Dixon was born in 1948, [2] the daughter of Luiseño tribal chair Lorena Lucille Majel Dixon. [3] After attending the San Antonio de Pala Asistencia's parish school, [4] she attended the Academy of the Little Flower in Oceanside after her parents protested against a public school's racist attempts to force her to enroll in home economics courses. [5]
The recorded history of the Newport Beach, California region began when the area was first explored by Europeans in the 1500s. Prior to that time, Native Americans such as the Tongva and Juaneño/Luiseño people had been living in the area for thousands of years. Explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo mapped the coastline in 1542, but it was 200 ...
other Cupeño people, Luiseño people [1] The Pala Indian Reservation is located in the middle of San Luis Rey River Valley in northern San Diego County, California , east of the community of Fallbrook , and has been assigned feature ID 272502.
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Luiseño traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Luiseño people of southwestern California. Luiseño oral literature is very similar to that of the Luiseño's Takic-speaking relatives to the north and east, and also to that of their Yuman neighbors to the south. Particularly prominent are ...