If you hear the name Barona, you probably picture the hotel casino on Wildcat Canyon Road in Lakeside.

is about 27 miles east of San Diego, on the .

But a little more than a mile down Wildcat Canyon Road, you find the .

If you want to know what this place represents, what it means to the people here, is your man. He is Chairman of the Barona Band of Mission Indians.

Welch told us the casino and hotel made this museum possible.

Mike Damron

“Because of our successful business, we’ve been able to go back and start recreating our history, learning about our history. A lot of it was lost, it was oral history,” Welch said.

At the cultural center there are the type of museum-quality displays you’d expect to find, but those share space with contributions from a very young class of curators

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