Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
History and Current Events, Songs and Dance, Stories, Traditions
Summary
A recollection in the book Mulu'wetam: The First People on page 62-65. The story about the fiesta of San Francisco, where the local neighboring villages would join together to celebrate for three days, singing, dancing, playing instruments, and eating.
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Animals, Stories
Summary
A animal story in Mulu'wetam: The First People on page 122-125. Coyote tries to capture and eat a hen, but the hen makes an escape which causes an unexpected twist for the coyote.
A story in Mulu'wetam: The First People on page 120-123. The story is about Coyote went hunting and took his daughter, eventually killing her. Then his daughter turns to a ghost.
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
History and Current Events, Language Learning, Place, Stories
Summary
In this story that is found on pages 46-49 in Mulu'wetam, Roscinda Nolasquez continues to share her account of the the removal from Warner's Hot Springs to Pala.
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Animals, History and Current Events, Language Learning, Stories, Traditions
Summary
This story is about a man, presumably Kisily Pewik, who is a good hunter. On one of his hunts he killed a bear and skinned it. Then he turned into the bear.
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Animals, Language Learning, Stories
Summary
An animal story in Mulu'wetam: The First People on page 130-132. A story about Coyote hunting, he comes across a squirrel and the squirrel hides in her burrow with her children. The crows see everything and Coyote tries to dig up the squirrels.
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Animals, History and Current Events, Language Learning, Plants and Ethnobotany, Stories
Summary
This is a story about how Fox was greedy and went back for one more chicken. A raccoon eats his chicken while he was gone. Dog wakes up and chases him. He returns to find his meat is gone.
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Animals, Language Learning, Songs and Dance, Stories
Summary
A animal story in Mulu'wetam: The First People on page 150. This story is about two doves, one who is working and the other who is crying. Then the working doves asks the other to stop crying and sing. Audio: Roscinda Nolasquez, Song on sentence 16.
