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PP.

I.

Introduction

1--6

II.

Praeparation & Background

7--14

III.

Desert Cahuilla History

15--22

IV.

Autobiography of a Pul

23--57

V.

Desert Cahuilla Folktales

58--71

VI.

Conclusion

72--6

[VII.]

Appendices

77--117

I.

Introduction

1--6

p. 3

"Mukat's People by Dr. Lowell Bean shows how ... philosophy pervaded Cahuilla ... culture".

Lowell Bean : Mukat's People : the Cahuilla Indians of Southern California. U of CA Pr, Los Angeles & Berkeley, 1972.

p. 4

"in the past few years have Indian medicine men and women started coming out from behind the "buckskin curtain" and openly advocated the value of their ancient traditions (Rolling Thunder, Boyd 1974)."

Doug Boyd : Rolling Thunder. Random House.

II.

Praeparation & Background

7--14

p. 9

"I'm going to die. ... I know we're going to that place where the dead go."

p. 10

"dug a long pit in the sand, just the shape of my body and about two feet deep. ...

p. 11

They covered me ... and put more sand on top to seal in the heat. ...

{Carlos Castan~eda likewise described the lower portion of one's body being buried temporarily in the desert, as a spiritual exercise. (JI, p. 69)}

At night the old people would visit and sing songs."

p. 13

"Ruby ... said. "Have you read any of the books by Carlos Castaneda? ... Our medicine men and women here in Coachella Valley were just like Don Juan {Matus}. ... I am a pul myself, but the "ally" as Castaneda calls it, the spiritual helper which distinguishes a pul from ordinary people, came to me through Dreaming ... . ... kikisulem tea, made from ...

p. 14

roots of the plant you call Datura, was sometimes given during childbirth to ease contractions and raise the mother's spirit."

III.

Desert Cahuilla History

15--22

"The Desert Cahuilla clans living south of Indio were more widely scattered than the Palm Springs and Pass Cahuilla groups".

p. 21

"Barrows interviewed informants at Morongo reservation in 1891.

David P. Barrows : The Ethnobotany of the Cahuilla Indians of California. U of Chicago Pr, 1900.

Since then ... direct interviews with other Cahuilla people, culminating in Temalpakh (Bean and Saubel 1972)".

Lowell I. Bean & Katherine Sauble : Temalpakh : Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants. Malki Mus Pr, Banning, 1972.

p. 22

"Radin ... (1920), noted that "... personal reminiscences ... are likely to throw more light on the workings of the mind ... of primitive man"".

Paul Radin : The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian. U OF CALIF PUBLS IN ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY, 16:7. 1920.