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Luiseno

The Luiseno Native American peoples were the most southwesterly members of the Uto-Aztecan language family to live in the United States. Historically their homeland consisted of an ecologically diverse 1,500 square mile region of southern California, from Aliso Creek to the north to Agua Hedionda Creek to the south, and encompassing much of today’s San Diego county and southwestern Riverside county. The Spanish named the Luiseno after their mission at San Luis Rey de Francia. Early documents distinguished between the Juaneno and the Luiseno based on dialectic differences, but today they are considered one group. Prior to Euroamerican colonization, the Luiseno are believed to have numbered upwards of 10,000; today there are 2,798 recognized members.

Name: Luiseno. Historically also referred to as Juaneno.

Location: Southern California.

Population: 10,000 prior to Euroamerican colonization; today around 2,800.

Language Family: Uto-Aztecan.

First Contact by Euroamericans: In 1776 when the mission of San Juan Capistrano was founded.

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