Luiseño

The Luiseño or Payómkawichum are an Indigenous people of California who, at the time of the first contacts with the Spanish in the 16th century, inhabited the coastal area of southern California, ranging 50 miles (80 km) from the present-day southern part of Los Angeles County to the northern part of San Diego County, and inland 30 miles (48 km). In the Luiseño language, the people call themselves Payómkawichum (also spelled Payómkowishum), meaning "People of the West."^[3] After the establishment of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia (The Mission of Saint Louis King of France),^[4] "the Payómkawichum began to be called San Luiseños, and later, just Luiseños by Spanish missionaries due to their proximity to this San Luis Rey mission.^[5]

Today there are six federally recognized tribes of Luiseño bands based in southern California, all with reservations. Another organized band is not federally recognized.

'áaway, on a head branch of Santa Margarita River

Awa’, Aguanga

Chawimai, Los Duraznos, Cahuilla valley

Hurúmpa, west of Riverside

Méexa, on Santa Margarita River northwest of Temecula

Pawi, warm spring in middle of village at Cahuilla valley

Páayaxchi, on Elsinore Lake

Pichaang, Pechanga

Șuvóowu Șuvóova, east of San Jacinto Soboba

Táa'akwi, at the head of Santa Margarita River

Teméeku, east of Temecula

(1948–2023), culture keeper and ethnobotany instructor^[21]

Richard Lee Bugbee

(1892–1968), football player^[22]

Pete Calac

Freddy Herrera, musician

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(1950–2018), performance artist^[22]

James Luna

(1888-1972), painter^[23]

Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuñez

(b. 1977), beadwork artist, fashion designer^[22]

Jamie Okuma

(1937–2005), painter and sculptor^[22]

Fritz Scholder

(b. 1965), art dealer, documentary film maker^[22]

Ruth-Ann Thorn

(1822–1841), scholar^[22]

Pablo Tac

Luiseño language

Luiseño traditional narratives

Mission Indians

Pauma Massacre

Temecula Massacre

USS Luiseno (ATF-156)

Kumeyaay people

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Flutes of Fire: Essays on California Indian Languages

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Aesculus californica

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A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples

White, Raymond C. (1963). "Luiseño Social Organization". University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology. Vol. 48. pp. 91–194.

Bean, Lowell John and Shipek, Florence C. (1978) "Luiseño," in California, ed. Robert F. Heizer, vol. 8, Handbook of North American Indians (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 550–563.

Du Bois, Constance Goddard. 1904–1906. "Mythology of the Mission Indians: The Mythology of the Luiseño and Indians of Southern California", in The Journal of the American Folk-Lore Society, Vol. XVII, No. LXVI. pp. 185–8 [1904]; Vol. XIX. No. LXXII pp. 52–60 and LXXIII. pp. 145–64. [1906].

Diegueño

Sparkman, Philip Stedman (1908). . The University Press. Retrieved August 24, 2012.

The culture of the Luiseño Indians

; Philip Stedman Sparkman; Thomas Talbot Waterman; Constance Goddard DuBois; José Francisco de Paula Señán; Vicente Francisco Sarría (1910). The religion of the Luiseño Indians of southern California. The University Press. Retrieved August 24, 2012. Volume 2

Kroeber, Alfred Louis

Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians official site

Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians

Mythology of the Mission Indians, by Du Bois, 1904–1906.

San Luis Rey Band of Luiseño Indians official site

Agha, Marisa (March 18, 2012). . The Sacramento Bee. Archived from the original on March 21, 2012. Retrieved August 8, 2012.