Religious Practices of the Diegueño Indians, by T.T. Waterman, ,
at sacred-texts.com The people known as Diegueño, called by
themselves Kawakipai 1 or southern people, 2 occupy the extreme
southern part of California. The region which they inhabit
coincides approximately with the boundaries of San Diego county.
Linguistically they are divided into at least two dialectic
groups. One dialect is spoken at the villages or rancherias of
Mesa Grande, Santa Ysabel, Capitan Grande, Los Conejos, Sycuan,
and Inyaxa. These villages are located on reservations in the
northern part of the county. The people now residing at Campo,
Manzanita, La Laguna, Cuayapipe, and La Posta reservations, in
the southern part of the county, speak a slightly different
dialect. During the Spanish occupation of California, the people
speaking these dialects were associated in a general way with
Mission San Diego. Hence both divisions acquired the designation
"Diegueño." The southern dialect is spoken also by the Indians
of Yuman family in Lo