Welcome to our place in the sun.
For more than 10,000 years the Pechanga People have called the Temecula Valley home
and now a time of renewed optimism is upon us where we can build and plan a better life for our people and our region.
Miiyu!
Welcome to our place in the sun. For more than 10,000 years the Pechanga People have called the Temecula Valley home and now a time of renewed optimism is upon us where we can build and plan a better life for our people and our region.
In Luiseño, the native language of our people, PECHANGA (pe-CHONG-ah) literally means "place where the water drips."
It is derived from "pechaq" meaning "water is dripping" plus the suffix "-anga," which creates the locational form of the word.
It is the name of the spring at the foot of the mountain where our ancestors moved after their forced eviction from the ancestral Temeeku village in the late 1800s.
From that point on, we became known as the people who live at Pechaa'ang - or the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians.
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