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Native California fan palms at Coachella Valley Preserve below arid desert hills and distant mountains

How the Cahuilla Read the Desert: Water, Plants and Seasonal Life

Generations of Cahuilla people developed detailed knowledge of the Coachella Valley’s water, plants, elevations and seasonal change. Explore springs, walk-in wells, palm oases, mesquite groves...
View from the upper Boo Hoff Trail across La Quinta Cove and the Coachella Valley within the Cahuilla homeland

Who Are the Cahuilla? The Indigenous People of the Coachella Valley and Mountains

The Coachella Valley and its surrounding mountains are part of a living Cahuilla homeland. Meet the people, language and nine sovereign tribal nations that continue...