Cupe?o woman

Description

The Cupe?o are a small Shoshonean group of mountaineers formerly residing at the head of San Luis Rey river in north-central San Diego county. Popularly known as Aguas Calientes and as Warner’s Ranch Indians, they gained considerable prominence at the beginning of the century when the Supreme Court ruled adversely upon their title to the land of their nativity. In 1903 they were settled at Pala reservation on lands adjoining those of the Luiseños, and their former habitat is now beautiful Warner’s ranch. Cupe?o is a Spanish derivative of Kupa, the name of their former village. The surviving population of Wolak, the other Cupe?o settlement, is now on Los Coyotes reservati