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Joshua Tree National Park - Oasis of Mara

Native American Life at the Oasis


Native Americans coined the term "Mara," translated by some as "little water and much grass." The Serrano Indians probably lived at the oasis for several centuries before the Chemehuevis arrived from the Colorado River area in the late 1860s.


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