Pechanga Temecula

The Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians has called the Temecula valley home for more than 10,000 years......According to tribal elders, life on earth began in this valley, called Exva Temeeku, the place where the sun, the earth, sky all met to create the people known as the Perchanga, or in there tongue, Temeekuyam.....10,000 years from now, tribal elders believe, that they will still be here, after all of us are gone, and that they will continue to share with the tribal youth as they do today the story of the tribe's creation.

The history of Pechanga begins with their ancestral home village of Temeeku.....Now burried under the Redhawk river, (where Margarita road cuts south through a bluff), the Temeeku Village was home to the Temeekuyam and a center for all Luiseño Tribal peoples.