Over time, the names around us can fade into routine. Names like Cahuilla, Tahquitz and Tachevah are woven into our daily lives in the Coachella Valley — printed on street signs, schools and ...

Californians lost a cultural treasure when the California Indian elder Katherine Siva Saubel died a couple of weeks ago. As one of the last native speakers of the Cahuilla language, spoken by some ...

Katherine Siva Saubel, an elder of the Cahuilla Indian tribe of Southern California, once described herself as “just a voice in the wilderness all by myself.” She meant that she had few people with ...

Katherine Siva Saubel, an elder of the Cahuilla Indian tribe of Southern California, once described herself as "just a voice in the wilderness all by myself." She meant that she had few people with ...

PALM SPRINGS — When it opens next year, the Agua Caliente Cultural Museum will encompass several acres of historic tribal land and put native Cahuilla culture on display. To some tribal members, ...

Just before dusk on a Wednesday, children gather at the tribal hall of the Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indian reservation in this unincorporated area just north of the Salton Sea. They giggle and ...

In the middle of the dusty California desert, a group of Cahuilla Native Americans gather, as they have for generations, for the annual agave festival. Leaves from the steely, light green plant are ...

For Daniel Archuleta, a second-year Ph.D. student at UC Riverside, studying Indigenous language and culture during the coronavirus pandemic has given him “solace in trying times.” “It takes your mind ...