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CUPANGAWICITUM

(People Who Sleep In The Water)

CUPA NEWS #7

With the rumor going around that Per Cap is going to be lowered descendants from Kupa aka
Agua Caliente (Warner’s Hot Springs and Ranch) better get concerned and start insisting on
answers at the tribal meetings. We have many important issues that should be taken care of.

One is the people on our rolls that should have never been put on our rolls. Many Old Pala
Descendants have been on our rolls and are receiving per cap. Old Pala has their own
reservation.

According to the Articles of Association adopted in 1959 or 1960, no one who is enrolled with
another tribe can be enrolled at Pala. Refer to the March 7, 1940 letter from John Dady with
the Mission Indian Agency, Riverside.

Also, the letter dated February 7, 1951 from Mr. James B. Ring, Area D, out of the Sacramento
Office, states that the Salmons Ranch consisting of several thousand acres was purchased for
the Indians that were moved from the village at Kupa aka Agua Caliente (Warner’s Hot Springs
and Ranch).

Indians that were forcibly moved from Agua Caliente (Warner’s Hot Springs and Ranch) and
their descendants contend that they are the only Indians entitled to allotments and no other
Indians should be allotted land at Pala. And they feel that some of the allotments already made
should not have been made.

And who is the PBMI? Surely not the evictees from the Warner Ranch area. They were not
Mission Indians and they were the Agua Caliente Cupeno Tribe prior to the Spanish Arrival and
pre-History. Robert is Chairman of the Luisenos. It is time to for the Agua Caliente Cupeno to
take their tribal name back.

Now is the time for all Agua Caliente Cupeno (Warner’s Hot Springs and Ranch) descendants to
stand up and protect the land for the Descendants of the Evictees from Warner’s.

If you would like a pdf copy emailed to you contact us at the Pala Store palastore01@gmail.com

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