Major Sources

The major sources on the ethnography of the Cahuilla include Francisco Patencio's Stories and Legends of the Palm Springs Indians (1943), and Desert Hours (1971); Lowell John Bean's The Wanakik Cahuilla (1960) and Mukat's People: The Cahuilla Indians of Southern California (1972), Philip Drunker's Culture Element Distributions V: Southern California (1937); A. L. Kroeber's "Ethnography of the Cahuilla Indians" (1908), and his chapter on the Cahuilla in his Handbook of the Indians of California (1925); Herbert E. Bolton's Anza 's California Expeditions, Vols. I-IV (1930); W. D. Strong's Aboriginal Society in Southern California (1929); Bean and Sylvia Brakke Vane's "Persistence and Power: A Study of Native American Peoples in the Sonoran Desert and the Devers-Palo Verde High Voltage Transmission Line" (1978), "Chapter V. Ethnography and Ethnohistory" in "Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Ethnohistoric Investigations at Tahquitz Canyon, Palm Springs, California, Vol. I" (1995), and "The Ethnography and Ethnohistory of Western Riverside County, California" (1997); and the field notes of Eric Elliot and Bean.

Sources on the ethnohistory of the Cahuilla include Bean's 1978b [in Stanley]; Bean and William Marvin Mason's The Romero Expedition, 1823-1826: Diaries and Accounts of the Romero Expeditions in Arizona and California (1962); Bean and Vane's "Chapter V. Ethnography and Ethnohistory" in "Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Ethnohistoric Investigations at Tahquitz Canyon, Palm Springs, California, Vol. I" (1995), and "The Ethnography and Ethnohistory of Western Riverside County, California" (1997); and Beattie and Beattie's Heritage of the Valley: San Bernardino's First Century (1951).