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Cahuilla / k ə ˈ w iː ə /, or Ivilyuat (Ɂívil̃uɂat or Ivil̃uɂat IPA: [ʔivɪʎʊʔat]), is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language, spoken by the various tribes of the Cahuilla Nation, living in the Coachella Valley, San Gorgonio Pass and San Jacinto Mountains region of southern California. [3]
The Cahuilla, also known as ʔívil̃uqaletem or Ivilyuqaletem, are a Native American people of the various tribes of the Cahuilla Nation, living in the inland areas of southern California. [2] Their original territory encompassed about 2,400 square miles (6,200 km 2 ).
Tahquitz (/ t ɑː ˈ k w iː t s /, sometimes / ˈ t ɑː k ɪ t s /) is a spirit found in the legends of the Cahuilla, Kumeyaay and Luiseño Native American people of Southern California. Accounts of the legend vary significantly, but most agree that Tahquitz represents evil or death, and his spirit makes its home on Mount San Jacinto .
Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians [6] Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians; Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians of California [7] Some Chemehuevi are also part of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians, whose members are mostly Sovovatum or Soboba band members of Cahuilla and Luiseño people.
The Cupan languages are a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family that comprises Cupeño, Ivilyuat (Cahuilla), Luiseño-Juaneño, and perhaps Nicoleño [1], all historically spoken in southern California.
By 1000, this language had diverged into Luiseño and proto-Cahuilla-Cupeño. The latter diffused eastwards. Contemporaneously, Kitanemuk, which had remained in the pre-expansion Takic homeland, diverged and diffused eastwards to two Millingstone, Yuman populations.
"Desert Cahuilla woman" by Edward S. Curtis (1926). The neighboring ʔívil̃uqaletem (Cahuilla) referred to the Kizh as Kisianos [29] which has been cited as a potential source of Kizh. [30] According to Andrew Salas, the name Kizh (pronounced Keech), sometimes spelled Kij, comes from the first construction of Mission San Gabriel in 1771.
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