Part 3 of a 4 part series by Jeff Smith at the San Diego Reader is out. It is titled:
Against the Inevitable - This land is mine: The Cupeño removal of 1903, part three of four
Here is an excerpt:
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On April 19, Cecilio Blacktooth and three other tribesmen rode to San Bernardino to buy horses. “We will never give in,” he told the Los Angeles Herald, “but will perish gladly if the last sight we see is our Agua Caliente.
“Some will scatter to other tribes, but the old men and women would not leave and have begged to be taken above Warner’s Ranch in the mountains…to look down upon the graves of their ancestors.” Pala is “so barren,” he added, “not even rabbits will live there.”
Blacktooth didn’t mention that at least 15 Luiseño Indian families already did. They lived on allotments assigned by the government ten years prior. The relocation would force them to share a reservation with another tribe.
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Read the full article at this link:
Against the Inevitable - This land is mine: The Cupeño removal of 1903, part three of four
