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My Luiseno Neighbors-A Peek Into The Past,
By Gale Cunningham (Valley Center, California, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: My Luiseno neighbors: Excerpts from a journal kept in Pauma Valley, northern San Diego County, 1934 to 1974 (Paperback)
I came across this book while doing a simple research paper for a class I was taking at Palomar Comm.College. While I've lived in the Valley Center-Pauma Valley area for 13 years, I was unaware of the cultural history of the Luiseno Tribe of Indians who dominated this area for hundreds of years. This book was an eye-opener for me, telling of experiences from a white woman's point of view, as she lived in Pauma Valley for over 50 years. Her journal writings cover years of changes of the Native American tribes, but more than that, her personal relationships are a facinating documentation of how she was accepted and trusted with tribal ceremony proceedures and reflect great respect for a dying way of life and language. The beauty of this book is Mrs. Beemer's love of the land in the same way that Luisenos loved their land as it gave to them the things they gathered to exist. In addition, it is a testament to the way a person may extend themselves in friendship by watching, listening and sincerely caring for a group of people who are vastly different from one's own cultural background. This is a factual book for fourth grade students studying California history, even though it only covers the early to mid 1900's.I'm hoping to get my own copy soon to use in the Title IX(Indian Early Childhood Education)class that I work in at Pauma Elem.School. Don't forget our local history may not include anything about the American Revolution, but a people lived here who flourished in peace, and contributed to protecting a beautiful land and its resources, while trying to maintain family relationships as their homeland was changed by more powerful newcomers. With the loss of the elder language speakers, there are no children speaking the Luiseno tongue. Dr. Eric Elliot,PhD.of Palomar Comm.College is now teaching this language at our school site, in the hope that the children may give a vital piece of their culture to their children so the ties that bind may proudly continue.
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