The hot springs, the centerpiece of the Arrowhead Springs Resort, was also well known to other American Indian people, including the Tongva and Cahuilla. “The area where the Arrowhead Springs property sits is referenced in many Serrano stories and has always been critical to our history and culture,” Vincent Duro, former San Manuel Tribal Chairman, has said. From 1961 up until that point, the Campus Crusade for Christ, a Christian faith-based organization now known as CRU, had owned the site. … This is one of the big reasons the tribe was interested in purchasing the property,” says Jacob Coin, Director of the Office of Public Affairs of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, which purchased the resort this past May for an undisclosed sum. “The Arrowhead Resort property is within the aboriginal territories of the Serrano people.

Long before the beginning of mass westward expansion starting in 1851, when Mormon leader Brigham Young had a vision of an arrowhead on a mountainside and sent followers west from Utah to find and establish “a new Zion” there, the Yuhaaviatam clan of the Serrano people were here and in the surrounding highlands, mountains and passes of the area. It is a story that continues through the era of westward expansion, the establishment of San Bernardino and other inland cities and their citrus industries, Hollywood’s glamour years, World War II, 1960s-70s Christian revivalism and growth of the densely-populated metropolitan centers below. Its presence shadows Southern California’s cultural and historical legacies dating back to the centuries-long presence of Serrano Indians, whose ancestral homeland this is. It is filled with the stunning art deco interior designs and accouterments of Dorothy Draper. Built in 1939, the erstwhile playground of Hollywood’s celebrities was designed by renowned African American architect Paul R.

Nonetheless, the grand, 69-room white hotel stands sentry over the San Bernardino Valley. Arrowhead Springs hotel, circa 1980 | The collection of The Campus Crusade For Christ

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