III. CHEMSHUUN CHEMTUL'A -- OUR MEMORIES

III. CHEMSHUUN CHEMTUL'A -- OUR MEMORIES

Recollection stories

This includes the third section of Mulu'wetam with 21 stories. These reminiscent stories are told by the people who grew up in Cupa, featuring childhood recollections, gathering food and medicine, and what they saw in their surroundings.

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Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
History and Current Events, Stories
Summary
A story in Mulu'wetam: The First People on page 92-93, this story is about a recollection of Carolina Nolasquez's childhood and what she would do as a child when she lived at Cúpa.
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
History and Current Events, Place, Plants and Ethnobotany, Songs and Dance, Stories, Traditions
Summary
A story in Mulu'wetam: The First People, on page 92-93, is about Salvadora Nolasquez's activities she did as a child when she lived at Cúpa. She would play, dance, gather foods to eat, and go to the woods to explore.
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Place, Stories, Traditions
Summary
A story in Mulu'wetam: The First People on page 94-95, about Carolina Nolasquez's recollection of the games she used to play, what she would eat during the day as a child in the Cúpa Village, and also some memories of school.
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
History and Current Events, Stories, Traditions
Summary
A story in Mulu'wetam: The First People on page 94-95, is about how the native boys used to play and what activities they did when they lived at Cúpa long ago.
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
History and Current Events, Plants and Ethnobotany, Stories, Traditions
Summary
A story in Mulu'wetam: The First People on page 95-97, Carolina Nolasquez tells a story about the young men in the Cúpa Village. She explains they would work in the fields harvesting and they would play shinning, then a young man taught them baseball.
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Animals, History and Current Events, Plants and Ethnobotany, Stories, Traditions
Summary
A story in Mulu'wetam: The First People on page 96-97, is about how long ago, the natives' of Cúpa what they would do in order to find food. They would hunt animals and gather acorns along with others plants/mushroooms.
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
History and Current Events, Plants and Ethnobotany, Stories, Traditions
Summary
A story in Mulu'wetam: The First People on page 96-97, about former times, long ago, how the the natives would use certain medicines to try to heal themselves if they had colds.
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Arts and Artists, History and Current Events, Plants and Ethnobotany, Stories, Traditions
Summary
A story in Mulu'wetam: The First People on page 96-97, about how the Cúpa women made different size baskets and how the would prepare their materials to be certain colors for the baskets.
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
History and Current Events, Stories
Summary
A story in Mulu'wetam: The First People on page 98-99, is about how the Cupeño natives first reacted when they seen the first white people. The Cupeños sent one who was not afraid to look and came back to tell everybody what he found.
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program
Category
Stories
Summary
A story in Mulu'wetam: The First People on Page 98-101, tells about the Hot Springs in Cúpa. This story shares some history and myths about the springs when the original ancestors lived there.
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
History and Current Events, Place, Stories
Summary
A story in Mulu'wetam: The First People on page 100-101, is Carolina Nolasquez's recollections of the hot spring, she tells where the natives would gather water and the places they went. Also what the certain waters would do to their hair and teeth.
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
History and Current Events, Place, Stories
Summary
A story in Mulu'wetam: The First People on 100-101, Carolina Nolasquez talks about long ago the first Cúpa people and what type of houses they lived in. Then she explains that when the friars came, they taught them how to build adobe houses out of clay.
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Stories
Summary
A story in Mulu'wetam: The First People on page 102-103, Carolina Nolasquez tells about a man who goes north to teach English, then the man visits a friend in San Quentin prison.
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Stories
Summary
A story in Mulu'wetam: The First People on pages 102-103, Carolina Nolasquez explains when she visited the Mohave Indians and how she felt about the conditions they lived in.
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Stories
Summary
A story in Mulu'wetam: The First People on page102-105, Carolina Nolasquez tells a story about a tramp who begged her for food, and that he was traveling from Mexico looking for his rich parents in Canada. The man left only to return the following summer.
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Animals, History and Current Events, Place, Plants and Ethnobotany, Stories
Summary
A story in Mulu'wetam: The First People page104-107, about Roscinda Nolasquez when she was little and lived in Cupa. She describes the activities her and her friends would do when she was little. Audio: Roscinda Nolasquez
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Language Learning, Plants and Ethnobotany, Stories, Traditions
Summary
A story in Mulu'Wetam: The First People page 108-111, about how Frances Bosley would prepare her acorns and make weewish. A traditional food made by Cupeño People. Audio: Frances Bosley
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Plants and Ethnobotany, Stories
Summary
A story in Mulu'wetam: The First People on page110-111, Frances Bosley tells a story about how she and her older sister go to where the beavertails grow to collect them. They would collect beavertails eat lunch then collect more to clean and use them.
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Language Learning, Plants and Ethnobotany, Stories, Traditions
Summary
A story in Mulu'wetam: The First People on page 110 - 111, is about how the author of the story would go check if the elderberries were ripe. If the elderberries were ripe then they would gather a lot of the berries. Audio: Frances Bosley
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Language Learning, Plants and Ethnobotany, Stories
Summary
A story about medicines from Mulu'wetam: The First People, page 110- 113, is about how the Cupeño Indians long ago would use some medicines to help with certain ailments. Also audio of each sentences 1-9 of Frances Bosley reading the story in Cupeño.
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Language Learning, Stories
Summary
A story from Mulu'wetam: The First People on page 112-113, about the author's recollections of different types of rainbows she had seen throughout her lifetime and the different colors the rainbows were. Story told by: Frances Bosley