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- noun Plural form of
Cahuilla .
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Examples
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There was another Indian village nearer, -- the village of the Cahuillas, on one of the high plateaus of San Jacinto.
Ramona 1921
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To the simple Cahuillas it seemed like a miracle; and they looked on Aunt Ri's weather-beaten face with something akin to a superstitious reverence.
Ramona 1921
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He declared that the Cahuillas would surely come and murder him in the night, and begged piteously that the men would all stay with him to guard him.
Ramona 1921
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The god of the San Juan Indians was Chinigchinich, and it is possible, from similarity in the ways of appearing and disappearing, that he is the monster Tauguitch of the Sabobas and Cahuillas described in The
The Old Franciscan Missions Of California George Wharton James 1890
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He declared that the Cahuillas would surely come and murder him in the night, and begged piteously that the men would all stay with him to guard him.
Ramona Helen Hunt Jackson 1857
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Cahuillas, on one of the high plateaus of San Jacinto.
Ramona Helen Hunt Jackson 1857
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To the simple Cahuillas it seemed like a miracle; and they looked on
Ramona Helen Hunt Jackson 1857
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