Taking Stock of Indian Ranching
Local History: Soboba and Cahuilla
The Soboba are a band of Luiseño
Indians, who were affiliated with the Mission
San Luis Rey. This mission, located along the coast north
of the Mission of San Diego, was the largest mission, with the
largest population and also the biggest herd of livestock. Soboba
was shown as the “Indian Village Savabo” on the
plat of Rancho San Jacinto as confirmed to the heirs of José
Antonio Estudillo in November of 1879. There are now 810 members
of the Soboba band. The reservation was established near Hemet
in 1883. The reservation is now 6,886 acres and although it
was involved in ranching, it is no longer part of its economy.
The Cahuilla have several reservations, and Cahuilla were well
established in ranching when the first white settlers arrived.
Some of the Cahuilla cattle came from the King
Ranch, a famous Longhorn ranch in Texas. In most local areas,
everyone worked together to make ranching a viable industry;
Indian ranchers and white ranchers worked side by side. By the
turn of the twentieth century, ranchers in the area sold their
cattle and had them shipped out of Temecula by train. With the
money gained from their sales, the ranches could buy other things
they needed, such as supplies and building materials.
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