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Katherine Siva Saubel: Curriculum Vitae
Personal |
| Born: 1920 |
at Pachaval (The upper old village at Los Coyotes
Reservation)
Language fluency: ‘Ivillu (Cahuilla) and English
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Education |
1940
1962
1962
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Palm Springs High School (Diploma)
University of Chicago (Studies in Anthropology)
University of Colorado Boulder (Studies in Anthropology)
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Achievements and Awards |
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1962
1964
1965
1970 - 80
1983
1986
1987
1960
1990
1991 - 92
1992
1993
1994
1994
1994
1995
1998
1998
2000
2000 |
J. F. Kennedy Scholarship for Native Americans.
President and co-founder of the Malki Museum.
President and Founder of the Malki Museum Press.
Member, Riverside County Historical Commission.
Member, California Native American Heritage Commission.
Riverside County Historian of the Year Award.
Elder of the Year, Joint Rules Committee, California Legislature
Resolution #216.
Member, Los Coyotes Tribal Council.
Regents Scholar, UCR.
Consultant, touring exhibition Cahuilla Voices: We Are Still
Here.
Keynote Speaker, UCLA symposium on American Indian Religious
Freedom.
First Native American inducted into the National Women’s
Hall of Fame.
First Recipient of the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum
of the American Indian, Art and Culture Award.
Desert Protective Council Award.
YWCA Woman of Achievement Award, Riverside County, CA.
Bridge To Peace Award.
Latino and Native American Hall of Fame, Riverside, CA.
Spokesperson, Los Coyotes Reservation.
First Recipient of the California Indian Heritage Preservation
Award, Society for California Archaeology.
California Indian of the Year. California Indian Conference.
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Publications |
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1962
1963
1969
1971
1972
1980
1981 |
Cahuilla Ethnobotanical Notes: Oak
with Lowell J. Bean. University of California Archaeological
Survey Reports, UCLA Department of American Indian Studies.
Cahuilla Ethnobotanical Notes: Mesquite and Screwbean with Lowell
J. Bean. University of California Archaeological Survey Reports,
UCLA Department of American Indian Studies.
Kunvachmal: A Cahuilla Tale. The Indian Historian. San Francisco.
Cahuilla Dictionary, Grammar, and Texts. 3 volumes with Hansjacob
Seiler. University of Indiana Press, Bloomington.
Temalpakh: Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants with
Lowell J. Bean. Fifth Printing. Malki Museum Press, Morongo
Indian Reservation, Banning CA.
I’Isniyatam: A Cahuilla Design Book. Malki Museum Press.
Chem’ivillu (Let’s Speak Cahuilla) with Dr. Pamela
Munro. UCLA Department of American Indian Studies.
Many editorials authored for the Journal of California Anthropology
and the Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology.
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Lectures and Presentations |
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Colleges and Universities
California State University, Hayward (1976 - 1983)
California State University, San Diego (1976- 1983)
California State University, Sonoma (California Indian Conference
1991)
Chaffee College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA (California Indian Conference
2000)
College of the Desert, Cathedral City, CA
Copper Valley College, Twenty Palms, CA (1985)
Hachinoe University, Aomori-ken, Japan (1997)
Idyllwild School for Music and the Arts, Idyllwild, CA (1992)
Living Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA (1989-2000)
Mills College, Oakland, CA (1976)
San Fernando College Valley College of Law (1966)
University of California, Berkeley (California Indian Conference
1998)
University of California, Irvine (1988)
University of California, Los Angeles (Commencement Speaker,
2000)
University of California, Riverside (Medicine Ways Conference,
1993)
University of California, San Diego (Conference on Tribal Tradition
and High Technology, 1999)
University of Cologne, Germany (1971)
University of Southern California (1983)
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Museums and Historical Sites |
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Agua Caliente Museum, Palm Springs, CA (1986)
Andreas Canyon, CA (1995)
Edward Dean Museum, Cherry Valley, CA (2000)
Gilman Ranch Museum, Beaumont, CA (1997)
Living Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA (1992)
Malki Museum, Morongo Indian Reservation, Banning, CA
National Women’s Hall of Fame, Seneca Falls, NY (1993)
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA (1997)
Riverside Municipal Museum, Riverside, CA (1982)
Smithsonian Institution, Museum of the American Indian, Customs
House, New York, NY (1994)
Tewanet Overlook, Tewanet, CA (1999)
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Radio and Television Programs |
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CBS “Evening News with Dan Rather.” August 16,
1991.
KPPC “We Are Still Here: Indians In Southern California.”
2001.
NPR “Stories from the Spirit World: The Old Ways Are Gone.”
1986.
California Indian Radio Project, “Tending the Wild: Land
Management.” nd
“Stories and Oral History.”
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“Honoring the Women.” nd
Independent Filmmakers. “The Desert Cahuilla Family.”
1963.
Universal Pictures “Tell Them Willie Boy Was Here.”
1969.
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Bibliography |
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1990
1998
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Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian,
5th edition. Todd Publications.
The Heart is Fire.
Heyday Press, Berkeley CA.
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References |
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Richard West, Director, Smithsonian Institution, Museum of
the American Indian, Washington, DC.
Mary Ann Oppenheimer, Executive Director, National Women’s
Hall of Fame, Seneca Falls, NY.
Larry Meyers, Ex. Secretary, Native American Heritage Commission,
Capital Mall, Sacramento, CA.
Malcolm Margolin, Publisher, News from Native California, Berkeley,
CA.
Professor Hansjacob Seiler, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics,
University of Cologne, Germany.
Kojiro Hioki, President, Hachinoe University, Aomori-ken, Japan.
Lowell J. Bean, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, California
State University, Hayward.
Eugene N. Anderson, Professor of Anthropology, University of
California, Riverside.
Eric Elliott, Adjunct Faculty of California Indian Languages,
Palomar College, San Marcos, CA.
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