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What Indians lived at San Juan Capistrano?
Juaneño Band
The indigenous people who built San Juan Capistrano’s famous Spanish mission came to be known to history as the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians.
What people lived at San Juan Capistrano?
San Juan Capistrano plants and people. The natives of Capistrano Valley were known as the Acjachemen (A HACH A MEN), until the mission was established. It became a custom that the Indians surrounding the mission adopt the name of that mission thus the local Acjachemen nation became known as Juanenos.
What Indians lived in Orange County?
The original inhabitants of Orange County and the surrounding areas are the Gabrieleño (or Gabrielino) Indians and the Juaneño Indians. The Gabrieleño were given this name by the Spanish, because they were named after the San Gabriel Mission, but they call themselves Tongva.
What Indian tribe lived in Mission San Juan Capistrano?
Juaneño Tribe. Juaneño Indians. A Shoshonean division on the California coast, named from San Juan Capistrano mission, at which they were principally gathered, extending north to Alisos Carek and south to a point between San Onofre and Las flores Creeks. Their language forms one group with those of the Luiseños, Kawia and Aguas Calientes.
What is unique about San Juan Capistrano?
San Juan Capistrano is unique in Orange County and a rarity in California, a community whose foundation was laid by the earliest people to inhabit the land, and a community still evolving after more than 220 years. California history, and therefore San Juan Capistrano history, is often divided into five major eras: Prehistory (Before 1776)
Was San Juan Capistrano ever damaged?
Damage. Several of the Roman Catholic missions in the area experienced heavy damage. The bell structure at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel collapsed and at Mission San Juan Capistrano the Great Stone Church was destroyed and forty Native Americans were killed as the earthquake happened during the first service.
What animals were raised at the Mission San Juan Capistrano?
Barley, maize, and wheat were the principal crops grown at San Juan Capistrano; cattle, horses, mules, sheep, and goats were all raised by the hundreds as well. In 1790 the Mission’s herd included 7,000 sheep and goats, 2,500 cattle, and 200 mules and horses.