Pechanga Indian Field Trip

For the summer we have been trying to get the Scouts out to do some different things that are harder to do during school. So I arranged for the boys to go over to the reservation and learn about the Pechanga Indians. Our friend RJ is from the tribe and he and his son Joey gave the boys a tour of the village they have over there. This is one of the Kiicha Huts that RJ helped to build. Before we started the tour Joey took his machete to look for any rattlesnakes. Yikes. I wasn't sure what I signed us up for. Thank goodness there wasn't any. RJ did have some skin to show the boys which got them very excited.

This is one of the tents that housed around 8 or 10 people at a time.

This is how they stored their food.

Here is inside the smoke house where the Indians would get ready to hunt and disguise their scents.

We also got to see some rocks with writings on them. He also showed us on some rocks how the would have to sit there for hours before becoming a man and pound a hole into the rock with a smaller rock while in the buff. The boys got a kick out of that one. There are also rocks that they used as bells that when they hit them they could be heard miles away.

The boys thought everything was cool and I found it very interesting about our local indians.