Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people inhabiting parts of southeast California.
- noun The Uto-Aztecan language of the Cahuilla.
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- noun A member of a group of
Native Americans of theinland areas of southernCalifornia . - proper noun Their
Uto-Aztecan language .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But most of all as I retire, I think of my friend and teacher, a Cahuilla Indian man who founded the Indian Historian Press in San Francisco, Rupert Costo, now deceased.
Tim Giago: Walking Away from the Editor's Desk Tim Giago 2011
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But most of all as I retire, I think of my friend and teacher, a Cahuilla Indian man who founded the Indian Historian Press in San Francisco, Rupert Costo, now deceased.
Tim Giago: Walking Away from the Editor's Desk Tim Giago 2011
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There is an American Indian language, Cahuilla, which doesn't have a print component.
Many Votes, Many Headaches Bobby White 2010
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The Numic Family also includes a great many California tribes: the Serrano, Cupan, Luiseno, Cahuilla, Cupeno, Kiowa and Gabrielino, among others.
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The Numic Family also includes a great many California tribes: the Serrano, Cupan, Luiseno, Cahuilla, Cupeno, Kiowa and Gabrielino, among others.
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I was delighted to hear the noted Indian historian, publisher and journalist, Rupert Costo, Cahuilla, speak.
Tim Giago: Good or Bad? Indian Reorganization Act Turns 75 2009
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The other two were from the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, tribes that were clients of Jack Abramoff.
April 2006 2006
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The canyon is named after a powerful Cahuilla Indian shaman "witch doctor" who supposedly went bad and who continues to harvest the souls of the unwitting.
Archive 2006-12-01 sfmike 2006
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It seems that the energy is bad enough from this spirit that some Cahuilla Indians refuse to enter the place.
Archive 2006-12-01 sfmike 2006
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The canyon is under the jurisdiction of the very wealthy Agua Caliente tribe of the Cahuilla Indians...
Archive 2006-12-01 sfmike 2006
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