The La Quinta Historical Society's "Mornings at the Museum" program returns this Saturday, September 24th with a special presentation from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. featuring renowned anthropologist Lowell Bean.
When Lowell Bean came to the Coachella Valley in the late 1950's, he'd been told by leading anthropologists that there was nothing in the lowly "digger" culture of California Indians to study. "Historians, the public, and even anthropologists had viewed the California Indians as simplistic, primitive people," he says. "And they weren't. It turned out these were very complex cultures with beautiful music, epic poetry, sophisticated social organization, and philosophical systems." Bean went on to teach anthropology at California State University, Hayward, retiring in 1992. He co-founded the Malki Press and the Malki Museum with Jane Penn and Cahuilla elder Katherine Siva Saubel and formed the Ballena Press with Sylvia Vane. He has written--and continues to write--dozens of influential books and papers, including a classic on Cahuilla life: Mukat's People.
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