Cahuilla County, California
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Cahuilla County was a proposed
Cahuilla people, being the homeland of the Native American Tribe for over 2,000 years.[1]
The proposed county would have included the Coachella Valley including the cities of:
- Palm Springs
- Desert Hot Springs
- Cathedral City
- Rancho Mirage
- Palm Desert
- Indian Wells
- La Quinta
- Indio
- Coachella
- Blythe
The ballot measure was ultimately defeated.
Boundaries
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The eastern border of the county would have included the current Riverside County's existing eastern county-line north and south of Blythe along the
Idyllwild in the San Jacinto Mountains, east of the Hemet
area which would have remained in Riverside County.
Proponents argued at the time that the eastern
Inland Empire, and they were too far removed from the county seat at Riverside, about 70 miles from the possible Cahuilla county seat of Indio
.
See also
References
- ^ "California Indians and Their Reservations. SDSU Library and Information Access. (retrieved 12 Dec 2009) Archived June 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
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