Katherine Siva SaubelArticle Free Pass Katherine Siva Saubel,
née Katherine Siva (born March 7, 1920, Los Coyotes Reservation
[on the border of Riverside and San Diego counties], Calif.,
U.S.), Native American scholar and educator committed to
preserving her Cahuilla culture and language and to promoting
their fuller understanding by the larger public. Reared on the
Palm Springs Reservation in California, Katherine Siva was
taught by her parents from an early age to honour the traditions
of her people, the Cahuilla. After graduating from Palm Springs
High School, she worked as a teacher’s assistant at the
University of California, Los Angeles (1959–60), and as a
consultant to linguist Hansjakob Seiler at the University of
Cologne, Germany (1964–74). In the process Saubel became a
scholar of the history, literature, and culture of the Cahuilla.
Together with her husband, historian Mariano Saubel, and others,
she cofounded the Malki Museum on the Morongo Indian Reservation
in Banning, California, which not only