This reading list was compiled by Dr. Meranda Roberts for the exhibition Continuity: Cahuilla Basket Weavers and their Legacies. This list is not exhaustive and periodically updated.
William Duncan Strong, Aboriginal Society in southern California, (Banning, CA: Malki Museum Press, 1987).
Francisco Patencio, Stories and Legends of the Palm Springs Indians, (Palm Springs, CA: Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1943).
Lowell Bean and Harry Lawton, The Cahuilla Indians of Southern California, (Banning, CA: Malki Museum Press).
Lowell John Bean and Lisa Bourgeault, The Cahuilla, (New York, NY: Chelsea House Publishers).
Lowell John Bean, Mukat’s People: the Cahuilla Indians of Southern California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972).
Lowell John Bean, Katherine Siva Saubel, and Harry W Lawton, Temalpakh (from the Earth): Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants (Banning, Calif.: Malki Museum Press, 1972).
Katherine Siva Saubel and Eric Elliott, ’Isill Héqwas Wáxish =: A Dried Coyote’s Tail (Banning, Calif: Malki Museum Press, 2004).
Lowell John Bean, Sylvia Brakke Vane, and Jackson Young, The Cahuilla Landscape: The Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains, Ballena Press Anthropological Papers, no. 37 (Menlo Park, Calif: Ballena Press, 1991).
Lowell John Bean, Lisa J. Bourgeault, and Frank W. Porter, The Cahuilla: Indians of North America (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1989).
The Medicinal Plants Used by Native American Tribes in Southern California by Donna Largo, Daniel McCarthy, and Marcia Roper.
Mirelez, Shannon Michelle, Katherine Siva Saubel, and Eric Elliott. MenÃll: The Moon Maiden. (Banning, CA: Malki-Ballena Press, 2011).