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- Located in the beautiful foothills of San Diego, the Viejas Outlets show you a different side of southern California. Enjoy the incredible views of Viejas Indian Reservation and the highest peak in San Diego county, Cuyamaca Peak, while browsing through shops like COACH, Polo Ralph Lauren and Reebok.
- To me, the premier Native American casino in San Diego county. Numerous gaming tables and slot machines. Top notch eateries in The Oak Grove Steakhouse and Baron Long Bar and Grill. Easy access wit.
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At Viejas Casino & Resort, our award-winning restaurants strive to provide the best in service year after year. Our in-house chefs spend countless hours whipping up mouthwatering meals with fresh, locally grown ingredients.
Tribal Chairman Anthony Pico, official Viejas Tribal Council portrait, 2011-2015, courtesy of the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians.
ANTHONY PICO NEWS:
Chairman Pico was named to San Diego's 'The Daily Transcript' Top Influentials list for 2013! He was also elected to another term as Viejas chairman (2013-2014).
Anthony Pico is the elected chairman of the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians. He has served as the Viejas tribal chairman for more than 24 years.
His tribal 'rags to riches' story includes his Native American Indian band's rise from abject reservation poverty to tribal ownership of the successful multi-million dollar Viejas Casino and shopping outlet center on the Viejas Indian Reservation, Alpine, Calif.
Please visit the official Viejas website for information to learn about the sovereign Viejas Tribal Government, and Kumeyaay History from a Kumeyaay perspective.
SIX HUNDRED GENERATIONS IN SAN DIEGO
For some 12,000 years, Mr. Pico's Kumeyaay ancestors have occupied the region known today as Southern California (Imperial and San Diego counties) in the USA, and Baja California Norte in Mexico.
Chief Cinon Duro Mataweer (c. 1815-1910) is a famous 19th century American Indian spiritual leader (kuseyaay or tribal shaman). He is the great-great-grandfather of Anthony Pico. Photo courtesy of the Pico family archive, special to calie.org.
'Before gaming and revenue our people lived in despair, in abject and grinding poverty.
'This lifestyle was not a choice that we made.
'We were driven into the mountains, into the rocks — languished there for 150, 200 years not having an opportunity to access the economics of this rich and abundant country.
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'We need to be in a place where those children that are not yet born — we know those seven generations ahead of today — need to be in a place where they can stand, have their own land to stand on to be able to make choices, to be able to live in dignity.'
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- -Excerpted from Anthony Pico, PBS interview, 1997
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KUMEYAAY BIRD SINGER & POLITICAL ACTIVIST
Kumeyaay Bird Singer Anthony Pico pictured playing a Kumeyaay rattle and singing bird songs with Louis Guassic (Ipai, Mesa Grande), and John Christman (Kumeyaay, Viejas) during an election rally on the Viejas reservation in support of Proposition 1A in 2000.