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The Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation is a federally recognized tribe of Mission Indians from Southern California, located in an unincorporated area of San Diego County just east of El Cajon. The Sycuan band are a Kumeyaay tribe, one of the four ethnic groups indigenous to San Diego County.

Reservation and administration[edit]

The Sycuan Reservation is located at 32°46′57″N116°49′59″W / 32.78250°N 116.83306°W. The nearest outside communities are the unincorporated communities of Harbison Canyon and Crest.

Cody Martinez is their current tribal chairman.^[4]

The band operates two waste water treatment plants, a sequencing batch reactor used for their casino, administrative buildings, and maintenance buildings. They also operate and own a modular treatment plant in a flood plain near one of their residential areas. The tribe operates a water treatment facility which controls their nitrate levels. Additionally, the tribe operates a small medical clinic, dental office, fire department and tribal police force. In 2005, they eliminated their environmental department for political and economic reasons. In 2004, they installed a new air conditioning system, internal control systems, and a new parking lot.^{[citation needed]}

Economic development[edit]

The move toward casino gaming on the Sycuan Band reservation was spearheaded by the Sycuan Band's former chairwoman, Anna Prieto Sandoval.^[5] The Sycuan Band opened its first gambling facility, the Sycuan Bingo Palace, on their reservation in 1983.^[6] As a direct evolution from that successful venture, they now run a profitable casino, as well as an off-reservation golf course. The Sycuan band is not the only San Diego-area band to operate significant commercial enterprises off-reservation.

The Sycuan band purchased the downtown San Diego landmark U. S. Grant Hotel in 2003.^[7] It also advertises heavily in relation to the San Diego Padres major-league baseball team (including both television and radio commercials during game broadcasts, and posted advertising at Petco Park, the team's home field).

Hotel casino resort expansion[edit]

A $226 million hotel casino expansion opened to the public on March 27, 2019. The casino has a total of 2800 slot machines and 80 gaming tables (blackjack, poker, etc).^[8][9]

Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming[edit]

The Sycuan band also provides an endowment to support the Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming, a research institute at San Diego State University.

Education[edit]

The Kumeyaay Community College was created by the Sycuan Band to serve the Kumeyaay-Diegueño Nation, and describes its mission as 'to support cultural identity, sovereignty, and self-determination while meeting the needs of native and non-Native students.'

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

1. ^'California Indians and Their Reservations: S.SDSU Library and Information Access. (retrieved 11 June 2010)
2. ^Eargle, 202
3. ^Pritzker, 147
4. ^'Tribal Governments by Area.'Archived 2010-05-05 at the Wayback MachineNational Congress of American Indians. (retrieved 11 June 2010)
5. ^Gonzalez, Blanca (2010-11-01). 'Sycuan tribal elder Sandoval dies at 76, The tribal leader was instrumental in bringing gaming to reservation'. San Diego Union Tribune. Retrieved 2010-11-14.
6. ^Woo, Elaine (2010-11-07). 'Anna Prieto Sandoval, 76; Sycuan leader was a pioneer in Indian gaming'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-11-14.
7. ^https://narf.org/nill/bulletins/state/documents/american_property_management.html
8. ^'Sycuan Hotel and Resort'. www.sycuan.com.
9. ^'Sycuan Casino Expansion Includes Vegas-Backed Steakhouse and Cocktail Lounge'. www.sandiego.eater.com.

References[edit]

• Eargle, Jr., Dolan H. Northern California Guide: Weaving the Past and Present. San Francisco: Tree Company Press, 2000. ISBN0-937401-10-2.
• Pritzker, Barry M. A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN978-0-19-513877-1.

External links[edit]

• Sycuan Former Employee Video on YouTube

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