Not for Innocent Ears: Spiritual Traditions of a Desert Cahuilla Medicine Woman
- ISBN-10
- 0960446206
- ISBN-13
- 9780960446209
- Pages
- 124
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1980
- Publisher
- Sweetlight Books
- Authors
- Ruby Modesto, Guy Mount
Description
Not for innocent ears is an intimate ethnographic portrait of the spiritual beliefs, healing strategies, personal and cultural history of a Desert Cahuilla Medicine Woman: Ruby Modesto and her people, the native hunter-gathers and gardeners of Coachella Valley (Indio and Palm Springs), California. Narrated by Ruby Modesto. Compiled and arranged with supplementary anthropological information, photographs, and a suggested curriculum for teaching Our Indian Heritage by Guy Mount, 1980. This revised edition includes "The Song of Their Mother" a poetic reconstruction of the Cahuilla Creation Story by Conger Beasley, Jr., appended 1986."--Back cover.
