{[hang on]} I believe I have fixed the notability issue -- re the citations listed below as well as the information in the introduction as instructed. What else do I need to do? Please help! This is a VERY noteworthy woman -- and WIKIPEDIA has NOTHING on her!!! She is listed online in Britannica and in very many other sources as you can see by my citations below. I have tried to comply with Wiki standards, but must confess -- they are very confusing and I find them them very very difficult to follow -- espeically regarding the embedded links, use of the sandbox, etc. etc -- If this article cannot stand as is -- fine -- then let one of your other "editors" have at it -- or, please, have some one replay to me in PLAIN ENGLISH!! But I cannot follow all your symbols and issues --- and PLEASE PLEASE do not IGNORE this woman -- she is about to be anmed ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL 100 PEOPLE IN THE US FOR PRESERVATION OF LANGUAGE BY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE!!!! http://www.greatwomen.org/ http://www.britannica.com/ With John Lowell Bean. Temalpakh (From the Earth): Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants. Banning, California: Malki Museum Press, 1972. Sauvel, Katherine Siva and Eric Elliot. Isill Heqwas Waxizh: A Dried Coyote's Tail. Banning, California: Malki Museum Press, 2004. http://www.americanindian.ucr.edu/events/biography.html http://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/00_01/WH/klw/klw.htm Dozier, Deborah. The Heart is Fire. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 1996. www.malkimuseum.org www.underthehillproductions.com http://www.nahc.ca.gov/
Katherine Siva Saubel is a Native American scholar, educator, tribal leader, author, and activist committed to preserving her Cahuilla history, culture and language. Dr. Saubel is acknowledged nationally and internationally as one of California’s most respected Native American leaders. She received a PhD in philosophy from Los Sierra University, Riverside, California, and was awarded the Chancellor’s Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the University of California at the University of California, Riverside.
Some of her greatest achievements as both a scholar and tribal leader are evidenced in her efforts to preserve the language of the Cahuilla people. Katherine Saubel grew up speaking the Cahuilla language. Her mother, Melana Sawaxell, could only speak Cahuilla. Her father, Juan C. Siva, eventually mastered four languages: Cahuilla, Spanish, Latin, and English. While in high school, Katherine grew alarmed when she found that as she spoke Cahuilla to her friends, they would respond back to her in English. She worried that her people were losing their language. She began writing down the names and uses of the plants and herbs she learned from her mother as she gathered with her.
This notebook later became Temalpakh: (From the Earth) Cahuilla Indian knowledge and usage of plants that she collaborated on with anthropologist Dr. Lowell John Bean for ten years and was published by the Malki press in 1972. Temalpakh demonstrates the depth of Mrs. Saubel’s expertise in Cahuilla culture, and the second major focus of her scholarship: Native ethno botany, the study of the plant lore and agricultural customs of a people or specific ethnic group. Dr. Saubel is an expert on the unique Cahuilla uses of such plants as mesquite, screw bean, oak, acorn, datura, and many others.
In 1962, Saubel worked with Dr. William Bright, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Anthropology UCLA, and Professor Adjoint in Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder, on his studies of the Cahuilla language and as he prepared several publications. She also taught classes with Professor Bright and Professor Pamela Munro also of UCLA, and served as co-author with Munro on Chem’i’vullu: Let’s Speak Cahuilla, published by UCLA in 1981. Starting in 1964, Saubel worked on Cahuilla language research with linguist Professor Hansjakob Seiler of the University of Cologne, Germany to do further work on providing an authentic written translation of the Cahuilla language that had previously existed only in spoken form. Their work together resulted in the publication of both a Cahuilla grammar book and dictionary. Dr. Saubel also published her own dictionary, I’sniyatam Designs, a Cahuilla Word Book. Katherine Saubel’s work also includes several authentic transcriptions and English translations of Cahuilla folklore.
Mrs. Saubel’s research has appeared nationally and internationally in government, academic and museum publications. Her knowledge of Cahuilla ethno botany and tribal affairs has prompted State and Federal legislative committees to seek out her testimony. Past and current governors of California have honored her, and she has been appointed to numerous commissions and agencies. For many years, Katherine Saubel served on the Riverside County Historical Commission, which selected her County Historian of the Year in 1986. In 1987 she was recognized as Elder of the Year by the California State Indian Museum. Governor Jerry Brown appointed her to the California Native American Heritage Commission in 1982. She serves with distinction, preserving sacred sites and protecting Indian remains. Katherine Saubel has testified as an expert on Indian culture and history to the California legislature, the United States Congress, and many boards, commissions, and agencies.
Her writings have been published by numerous government agencies, academic institutions, and museums, and she has taught Cahuilla history, literature, and culture at UC Riverside, UCLA, California State University, Hayward, the University of Cologne, and Hachinohe University in Japan.
She has received numerous awards and honors for her achievements as an author, historian, teacher, and activist. Her recent awards include the First Recipient of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian, Art and Culture Award (1994); the Desert Protective Council Award; YWCA Woman of Achievement Award (Riverside County); Bridge To Peace Award; Latino and Native American Hall of Fame (Riverside); in 2000 the First Recipient of the California Indian Heritage Preservation Award by the Society for California Archaeology (2000); and the Indian of the Year by the California Indian Conference (2000). The award of which she is most proud is her 1998 induction into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York, the first for a Native American Woman. She was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in the 1993.
Together with her husband, historian Mariano Saubel, and friend Jane Penn, she co-founded the Malki Museum on the Morongo Indian Reservation in Banning, California, the first nonprofit museum on a Native American Reservation. The museum not only displays artifacts dating from prehistoric to recent times but also sponsors the publication of scholarly works on Native Americans from the region.
The first Indian girl to graduate from Palm Spring High Scool, Katherine Siva Saubel was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1993.
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http://www.greatwomen.org/ http://www.britannica.com/ With John Lowell Bean. Temalpakh (From the Earth): Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants. Banning, California: Malki Museum Press, 1972. Sauvel, Katherine Siva and Eric Elliot. Isill Heqwas Waxizh: A Dried Coyote's Tail. Banning, California: Malki Museum Press, 2004. http://www.americanindian.ucr.edu/events/biography.html http://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/00_01/WH/klw/klw.htm Dozier, Deborah. The Heart is Fire. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 1996. www.malkimuseum.org www.underthehillproductions.com http://www.nahc.ca.gov/