The village has been dated to being 4,000 years old. Following the
Spanish colonial period, Indigenous people were at one time re-granted the land from
Mexican governor
Pio Pico in the mid-nineteenth century. In 1843, a man by the name of Tiburcio became the first inheritor to the land. Then, in 1845, three Indigenous peoples listed by the names Ramon, Francisco and Roque received title to the land, recorded as
Rancho Los Encinos. Each of these individuals are ancestors to the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians. However, following the
American occupation of California, control over the land was lost due to a shift in attitudes as well as the business practices of a
Californio by the name of
Vicente de la Osa. This was acknowledged as stealing of the land by the tribe because a local settler used the legal apparatus to expand his land claims over the water resources of the
Encino Springs. In 1984, the site was disturbed by commercial developments for the Encino Towers and Casa Balboa property, which uncovered thousands of cultural items. Archaeologists kept these items from the tribe and held them for
ransom, eventually being housed at
Palomar College. What remained of the artifacts were finally returned to the tribe in 2015. == See also ==