In 1994, it expanded that operation to include a 100,000-square-foot casino, including a card room and slot machines. The tribe became involved with gambling in the mid-1980s when it invested in a high-stakes bingo operation - San Manuel Indian Bingo - near Highland, California. In 1866, most of the Yuhaaviatam tribe was killed and the survivors moved to Warm Creek in the San Bernardino Valley before the establishment of the San Manuel Reservation in 1891. During their time there, they provided unpaid labor to Spain.īy the mid-1800s, American settlers began moving in.
In the 1780s they were forced to live in the San Gabriel Mission. Long before the arrival of European settles, the Yuhaaviatam clan of the Maara’yam (Serrano) Indians lived in the southwestern Mojave Desert and Inland Empire region of what is now Southern California, according to their website. LAS VEGAS (KTNV) - San Manuel Casino is owned and operated by the San Manuel Band of Serrano Mission Indians.
