The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians have inhabited and governed, for eons, some 2,000 square miles of ancestral land in the Palm Springs, Cathedral City, portions of the City of Rancho Mirage and Riverside County. Today, much of the Tribe’s original Reservation of 31,500 acres has been highly developed into a modern desert tourism center, plus extensive upscale retail and residential uses. The Reservation includes billions of dollars worth of valuable real estate as well as critical desert and mountain habitat. Cupeno, Uto-Aztecan language of Southern California is the native language, but is only known by a few elders. There are approximately 2400 Agua Caliente.
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