Lucille Hooper and the Desert Cahuilla
| Alejo Patencio and William Duncan Strong |
Alejo Patencio collaborated with anthropologist William Duncan Strong, author of Aboriginal Society in Southern California, in the 1920s. The boundaries of kauisik traditional territories and the creation story of the Pass Cahuilla people are among the oral traditions preserved as a result of Alejo imparting his traditional knowledge.
|Francisco Patencio and Margaret Boynton|
The book Stories & Legends of the Palm Springs Indians by Agua Caliente elder and ceremonial and clan leader Francisco Patencio was published in 1943. Concerned that Cahuilla people were no longer learning sacred songs, ceremonies, or even the Cahuilla language, Patencio worked with ethnographers to help preserve such knowledge.
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