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The Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians of California is a federally recognized tribe of Mission Indians with two reservations, one located near the cities of Indio and Coachella in Riverside County, and the other in the city of Twentynine Palms in San Bernardino County, California. While many scholars regard the tribe as being Luiseño,^[2][3] the tribe itself identifies as being Chemehuevi.^[4]

Reservation[edit]

The area was settled in 1867 by a band of Chemehuevi, whose descendants formed the Twenty-Nine Palms Band.^[4] The reservation consists of two geographically separate sections, with the main one in Indio, and the other in the city of Twenty-Nine Palms at 34°07′02″N116°03′00″W / 34.11722°N 116.05000°W.

The portion of the Twenty-Nine Palms Reservation (33°42′38″N116°11′12″W / 33.71056°N 116.18667°W) in San Bernardino County was established in 1895 and occupies 402 acres (163 ha).^[2] It is adjacent to the city of Twentynine Palms and Joshua Tree National Park.

The Riverside County reservation was shared with the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians prior to 1976, when the reservation was split by Congressional Act.^[5] The larger Cabazon Indian Reservation lies adjacent to the main section of the reservation, mostly to the south and southeast, but surrounding it in every direction except its eastern border. The main reservation lies partly in the service area of the Indio post office (zip code 92201) and partly in that of the Coachella post office (zip code 92236), although it is not part of either city.

A Chemehuevi Burial Ground in the city of Twentynine Palms was officially established in 1976 when an acre of land containing fifty to sixty graves, one half mile south of the intersection of Highway 62 and Adobe Road in Twentynine Palms, was conveyed to the Twentynine Palms Park and Recreation District by Congress.^[6] In 1909 fifty to sixty marked graves were reported on the site, including the grave of Old Jim Boniface, leader of the tribe, who died in 1903 at the age of ninety. Other marked graves included thirteen of fourteen children of Jim and Matilda Pine, possibly victims of smallpox, and Mrs. Waterman (tribal name: Ticup), who was beaten to death by Willie Boy after she threw his rifle and ammunition into a pond.^[7] After the Willie Boy incident, the tribe left Twentynine Palms and went to live with the Mission Creek Reservation.^[8] The State of California declared the Chemeheuvi Cemetery a Point of Historical Interest by the State of California in 1974.^[9]

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Government and programs[edit]

The tribe's headquarters is located in Coachella, California, and their current tribal chairman is Darrell Mike.^[10]

In 1997, the tribe established the 29 Palms Band of Mission Indians Tribal Environmental Protection Agency, in partnership with the US Environmental Protection Agency. The tribe's EPA manages all environmental protection programs on their reservation, including improving water quality.^[11]

In 1995, the Twenty-Nine Palms Band established the Spotlight 29 Casino in Coachella.^[12]

In 2014, the Twenty-Nine Palms Band established the Tortoise Rock Casino in Twentynine Palms.^[13]

Notes[edit]

1. ^Eargle, 111
2. ^ ^abcPritzker, 131
3. ^California Indians and Their Reservations.San Diego State University Library and Information Access. 2009 (retrieved 6 May 2010) Archived March 11, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
4. ^ ^ab'Tribal History.'Spotlight 29 Casino. (retrieved 6 May 2010)
5. ^[1]
6. ^'Public law 94-262'
7. ^http://www.29palmshistorical.com/historicSites/ChemehueviBurialGrounds.php
8. ^[2]
9. ^http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/ListedResources/Detail/P345
10. ^'Tribal Governments by Tribe.'National Congress of American Indians. (retrieved 6 May 2010)
11. ^'About Us.'29 Palms Band of Mission Indians Environmental Protection Agency. (retrieved 6 May 2010)
12. ^'About Us.'Spotlight 29 Casino. (retrieved 6 May 2010)
13. ^[3] 'New Casino Opens in the High Desert' (retrieved 10 April 2016)

References[edit]

• Eargle, Dolan H., Jr. (1992). California Indian Country: The Land and the People. San Francisco: Tree Company Press. ISBN0-937401-20-X.
• Pritzker, Barry M. (2000). A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-513877-1.

External links[edit]

• Chemehuevi Indian Cemetery at Find a Grave

TWENTYNINE PALMS –

The High Desert now has a long-delayed, relatively low-stakes Indian casino.

Tortoise Rock Casino opened Monday in Twentynine Palms following years of planning slowed down by the Great Recession.

The Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians runs the new casino and the existing Spotlight 29 casino in Coachella. General Manager Tom Sedlock, who oversees both casinos, said Tortoise Rock aims to be a draw for High Desert locals, not necessarily the type of gambler who travels hours to check out a new place to play.

'With nothing really up here in the High Desert and the military base, it just made sense to put a small, local casino in the community,' Sedlock said.

Officials were open about wanting to attract people from the nearby Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center. Drawing in the base's younger residents is one reason Tortoise Rock is open to anyone 18 and older, Sedlock said.While the Morongo Casino in Cabazon is also 18 and over, other casinos in the area are not open to anyone under 21.

Tortoise Rock employs about 160 full- and part-time workers, most of whom have already been hired and undergone training at Spotlight 29, Sedlock said. For comparison, Walmart employs an average of 297 people at each of its California department stores, according to company statistics.

The 30,000-square-foot Tortoise Rock is opening with 490 slot machines, five table games and two poker tables. There's no hotel or large-scale restaurant attached to the casino at 73826 Baseline Road.

Sedlock said the casino's success will dictate any future expansions and that a hotel could be added if business is good. For now, food is available at a cafe area known as Oasis Grille. A sports bar called Shelly's Lounge near the middle of the casino focuses on drinks and has a small stage for live entertainment on Friday and Saturday evenings.

Sedlock said the Twenty-Nine Palms Band began considering a second casino around 2005 or 2006, but the recession led the project to be shelved. Planning resumed again in early 2011, he said.

The tribe announced in January 2013 that Tortoise Rock would be built on tribal land. The news came following speculation worrying some residents that the tribe planned to build a casino on land it had acquired near the entrance to Joshua Tree National Park.

Tribal gaming in California has seen modest growth in recent years following a period of annual declines during the recession, said Alan Meister, an Irvine-based economist who authored a recent report on the Indian gaming industry.

'The growth in California for Indian gaming is still pretty slow,' Meister said.

The 1.6 percent growth the industry saw in the state in 2011 and the 0.8 percent it saw in 2012 in California have been below what the industry has seen nationwide, he said.

His report found that gaming revenue on Indian sites nationwide grew 2 percent in 2012 to about $28.1 billion.

The Morongo Casino in Cabazon and Spa Resort Casino in Palm Springs are both Indian casinos about an hour's drive from Tortoise Rock. Along with the Spa Resort Casino, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians owns a casino and hotel in Rancho Mirage that regularly hosts large-name entertainers.

'We wish the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians the best of luck with their new endeavor,' Jeff Grubbe, chairman of the Agua Caliente tribe, said in a statement. 'We believe the addition of Tortoise Rock brings more entertainment opportunities to the High Desert as well as much-needed jobs.'

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Brothers Tim and Brad Hite were having lunch together at a restaurant not far from the new casino Monday. The two Twentynine Palms residents said they planned to head to the casino that evening for a drink.

With not many restaurants or entertainment options in town, they welcomed any new offerings that might come with the casino.

'I would hope that it would bring people into the town and that it would help local businesses,' Brad Hite said. 'You still can't get a good Cobb salad in this town.'

Reach Barrett Newkirk at (760)778-4767 or by email at barrett.newkirk@thedesertsun.com.