GC29WHX Mondo's NAT # 017 - Agua Caliente
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: mondou2 @ | Hide Date: 06/06/2010 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 52.815 W105° 03.961 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
       

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Native American Tribe Series

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Agua Caliente


Since time immemorial, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians inhabited and governed some 2,000 square miles of ancestral land in the Palm Springs area. The members of the Tribe lived in several well-established communities in the canyons and surrounding mountains and desert floor.


The coming of the railroad had a dramatic impact on the lives of tribal members, especially when the Federal Government gave all the odd-numbered sections of land in the Coachella Valley to the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1860s.

When President U.S. Grant established the present Agua Caliente Indian Reservation by Executive Order in 1876, only the even-numbered sections were still available, thus creating the present Reservation in a checkerboard pattern.

To encourage economic development, the Federal Government allocated the bulk of the Reservation land to the individual members of the Tribe in a process called “allotment” that lasted until 1959. In the same year, and for the same purpose, Congress authorized only this Tribe and its members to lease their land for up to 99 years.

Much of Palm Springs and adjacent Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage and unincorporated Riverside County is built on such land allotted to individual Tribal members and leased to developers in this way. However, under the Tribe’s Constitution, adopted in 1955, and federal law, the Tribe maintains primary control over the use and development of all land on its reservation, including those parcels included in cities located on the Reservation.

06/19/2021 By denbomans
Always enjoy the Mondou history lessons. Out celebrating my wife’s birthday with some caching fun.
Thanks

06/03/2021 By GmaNGsonPAK3606
TFTC

05/31/2021 By EJBHGV
Was too close to resist a NAT cache.
So, parked as close as possible and made it to GZ.
Very wet and muddy to get from road to cache.
But cache is in good shape.
TFTC

05/26/2021 By lasouthpaw
Headed out on a warm and kind of sticky evening. It may have been a little more humid than normal tonight. I targeted some caches and then found the road was closed for repairs, so I made some adjustments in my parking plans and was on my way. I haven't had many issues with mosquitos in Colorado, but they seemed to be everywhere. My own fault for picking caches by creeks and reservoirs. But I did see my first baby prairie dogs of the year and wild snapdragons so all in all a good night. Thanks to the COs for tonight's smileys!

Since the road was closed, I decided to cross the bridge (again) and walk down the middle of the road to the cache. Seriously, right down the double yellow lines. Everything was in good shape here.

04/08/2021 By Inmountains
Another tribe done. Tftc.

06/04/2019 By The Scarlet Beaver
No luck today

10/21/2018 By 4rt1
TFTC. SL

05/06/2018 By Alpenist
TFTC The log was a little bit wet so I dried it out.

04/07/2018 By #1 Beefers
Your NAT series is always so interesting. Thank you so much for this placement mondou2. Trying my hardest to grab enough caches to get my Space Explorer souvenir. I don't want GanderGoose to be upset with me.

01/03/2018 By cjcacher01
Log was totally wet. Put a new paper log in a baggie in the cache.

01/03/2018 By cjcacher01
Another Native American cache found!TFTC!

01/03/2018 By mona01
With some walking we did find this one on the 3rd day of NEW YEAR

01/02/2018 By Avs8889
TFTC

06/17/2017 By whoforest
Went for a georide . TFTC. SL all the TBs with us got to visit.

06/01/2017 By M725053
W/TinyBob&MW

06/01/2017 By mwestwo1
Super wet, M7, TinyBob and I replaced log with a new dry one.

04/30/2017 By baller34
Really hard to find, but still managed