Palm Springs Hot Springs

Here's the contents of a plaque that's downtown in front of the casino. Makes for some interesting historical reading. 

The Kausik Cahuilla are the owners of one of California's most famous hot springs. This natural resource provided them with permanent, palatable mineral waters which were used for curing, drinking and agriculture. It also was a direct access o the most valuable of all Cahuilla resources, the magical and powerful underworld in which powerful "nukatem" lived and from which Cahuilla shamans could acquire power, information and knowledge. It is remembered by Cahuilla that important shamens like Pedro Chino bathed in this pool and thereby acquired knowledge about healing from the pwoerfull beings who occupied the underworld to which the hot springs is connected.