Pala Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the Pala Reservation, California

Lands ceded to the United States by treaty, law or executive order, 1852–1870, as Charles C. Royce recorded them in 1899 — 24,354 km² in 4 cessions across California.

A cession records when the United States took title — not the full extent of a homeland, and much land was taken without any treaty. The link between each cession and present-day nations is the one the U.S. Forest Service and the National NAGPRA Program’s dataset records; the nation’s own account comes first. Corrections: [email protected].

Named in the treaties as: Co-com-cah-ra · Kah-wè-a · San Luis Rey · Mission Indians (San Pasqual and Pala Valley)

Cessions

Royce no.	Date	As the schedule names the parties	Sources
307	January 5, 1852	Co-com-cah-ra; Kah-wè-a; San Luis Rey · with 12 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule
308	January 5, 1852	Co-com-cah-ra; Kah-wè-a; San Luis Rey · with 12 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule
527	January 31, 1870	Mission Indians (San Pasqual and Pala Valley) · with San Pasqual Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California	Royce’s schedule
528	January 31, 1870	Mission Indians (San Pasqual and Pala Valley) · with San Pasqual Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California	Royce’s schedule

Trails across these lands

Zuni–Hopi–Mojave trade route · 66 km within them

Maps on Native Routes that cover these lands

Cession areas: “Tribal Lands Ceded to the United States” (USDA Forest Service, National NAGPRA Program, EPA and Claudio Saunt, 2018; CC BY 4.0), digitized from Charles C. Royce, Indian Land Cessions in the United States (1899). Outlines simplified to about 1 km. Part of Project Homeland v0.5.2 — how it was made.