Barona Tribal History
In 1875, the federal government established the Capitan Grande Reservation for the native people living, at that time, in the northern parts of what is today Greater San Diego. About 40 years later, in 1932, the city bought the Capitan Grande Reservation to build a reservoir. In 1932, without a homeland but with money in their pockets, members of that tribe bought the Barona Ranch, the current location of the Barona Indian reservation.
Until the early 1990s, the Barona Tribe struggled economically in the backwoods of San Diego County. In 1994, the tribe, with the consulting guidance of Venture Catalyst, opened the Barona Casino "Big Top." The casino has become the means to a restoration of self-sufficiency, prosperity and renewed hope. Unemployment and welfare dependency have dropped from 70 percent to below five percent on the Barona reservation.
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