The We Have Lost The Indian was meant to assimilate into civilized by Paul J. Price society and not prosper on a reservation.

I want to take you on a journey to a past long Unfortunately, the Luiseiio people knew that vanished, but still around us. One day I was winter rain and melting snow wash down from Pa' taking a walk in Wolf Valley and thoughts of aaw, flooding lowlands on its way to the sea. generation conservatorship begin to occupy my Pechanga always took the first heavy hit. This is mind. I want to describe to you this wonderful why they lived on the mountain shelves around the place, both past and present. valley. Besides, with the selection of living areas being so large, why would any Luiseiio want to Other than at a few prehistoric artifacts, there live in the midst of a death trap? exists no portal to Wolf Valley's past. Sometimes a marine air cloud gets stalled on the flanks of I wish those Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Agua Tibia Mountains and temporarily covers officials of 1882 could see these peoples' progress man's 'progress', leaving only the peaks of the today. mountains floating above. If your imagination were rich enough, you could use the cloudy mass, Besides the creek, I can also recall the small pools pretend it to be a curtain blocking reality, and of water (catch basins) in both the Pechanga and travel through the portal of recollection. The Temecula Creeks, where the pools' smooth former wilderness and beauty of the rich valley shimmering surfaces would break due to frogs would then come alive. escaping my approach by leaping into the pools' depth for security. Pechanga Creek would no longer be a controlled channel that has been mined for its sand and Twenty years ago while wading through the tully gravel. It would revert back to a mass of small grass at the confluence of the Pechanga and streamlets flowing down the slopes of Pa' aaw (if Temecula Creeks, I heard a splash. The strong your reference is prehistorical), Sierra del Palomar ripples were evidence of something larger than a (if your reference is early Spanish contact), or frog or turtle sounding. For years I thought it Smith Mountain (if your reference is historical). might have been a Luiseiio water spirit, a These streamlets create the valley's alluvial plain malevolent apparition known as Yuyungviwut. and became a tumultuous flood during a violent But truth eventually prevailed-much later I display of rainfall during the winters of 1884 and discovered it was a beaver. 1885. It was estimated that several thousand cubic feet of water per second raced down Santa How many of you can recall when the new Margarita Canyon. The newly formed Pechanga Pechanga Bridge (formerly Pala Bridge) was Reservation was directly in its path. being reconstructed and the Department of Fish and Game struggled to capture the creek's The reservation was destroyed. The aftermath was beavers? History? Too often we equate history Lake Woli 'wuna. This body of water stretched with man's progress. The smaller, less noticeable from Kelsey Tract to the foothills of present day creatures are either left for the naturalist to study Red Hawk-a distance of one mile. The lake took or to become forgotten by everyone. a full year to evaporate. The belted kingfisher is an example. I remember The official representatives of the U. S. sitting on a fallen log deep in Temecula Creek and Government in 1882 carried out a presidential watching a kingfisher perched on a crooked executive order that set aside the Pechanga Indian swaying limb that rises from a sunken log. It has Reservation for the Temecula Indians to "form a been years since I have even spotted this beautiful reservation on land not desired by our citizenry". predator. It is more than the water areas that have changed. hear the faint noise of whirring wings searching The mountain shelf of Kelsey Track as recent as out the luminous trumpet-like flower waving at 1999 possessed a beautiful languorous field of you through the dusk. Hummingbird? No. blue lupine (Lupinus excubitus). I still recall the Sphinx moth, Tobacco Hornworm (Manduca air stirring with a warm breath. Midsummer heat sexta), threading air like a hummingbird and claimed the day and the heat waves danced against hovering over a flower as it thrusts its uncurled, the green hills of Kelsey. Gone are the lupine proboscis-like tongue into the heart of the corolla fields and the now extinct small darting butterfly to suck the nectar hidden within. (Glaucopsyche piasus umbrosa) whose existence depended on this plant. Soon the heat waves will The other night I happened to spy this creature blow against the imported grass of a golf course. hovering around a fluorescent tube above my head at a convenience mart while I was pumping gas. The valley view today has lost the charm of open Sadly, I overheard a young boy remark to his fields. The brown sweep of unfenced plainsland father, "I bet you could kill it with one shot". with its burnt umber buckwheat (Eriogonum What we do not understand so often we mark for fasciculatum) swaying in the breeze and mixed death. with Canterbury-bells (Phacelia minor), whose swinging chimes ring only for elfin ears, are gone. Along the hills boarding Wolf Valley (now How long has it been since you saw Wolf Valley commercially named "Red Hawk"), I used to find fields of grain being rippled by summer breezes? a female California Brown Tarantula (Aphonopelmus eutylenum) tip-toeing on multiple If you fight hard enough against plunging legs and focused on finding a mate. For all their recklessly back into the present, your journey can ugliness this gentle creature would climb on my continue to the sound of the roguish crows' "claw, outstretched hand and walk the length of my arm claw". Did you witness the crow convention that before my own limit of tolerance was reached and took place at the comer of Wolf Valley Road and I would take her off, place her down, and watch Pala Road in 1983? The field was a black carpet her continue her journey. It takes years for the of crows, with each bird rambling on with an female to mature enough to procreate. Her main importance known only to themselves. Sure you predators are people and female tarantula hawks can still see the crows, but only in small groups. (Pepsis species), which is equivalent to a F-14 Gone are the vast multitudes. Tomcat in the insect world. Both predator and prey now fall victim to concrete, asphalt, and I have trekked these valleys, the arroyo secos, and mowed lawns. hills for years, always marveling with a sense of reverence at the circle of life. Numerous times I When teaching at Pechanga Cultural Center near have returned to my suburban home with the rank Kelsey Tract, I can recall the enjoyment of another odor of Jimson weed (Datura meteloides) or with a ground spider, the California Trapdoor Spider variety of sage on my Levis. They were removed (Bothriocyrtum californicum). Although its in the garage in response to the laminations of a subterranean nest is now gone, the joy I had of caring wife, who admittedly also enjoyed the wild showing its trap door to hiking companions lingers smell but wanted my souvenirs of nature to remain vividly in my mind. No, I never saw it. The in the wild. Is this attitude a product of spider is a nocturnal worker. My observations civilization? Of course. were limited to finding its trap door and gently prying it open with a small twig. Under watchful Endless lessons can be taught about Jimson weed eyes, you could imagine the reward I experienced and its importance to the valley's Luisefio people. seeing my companions' delighted enlightenment. But how much is said about the plant's insect I wonder if such things are taught in school today. partner? Walk the valley at summer's dusk and if your ear is keen-and with a little luck-you will Continued on next page A Boy Called Pomp: Jean Baptiste Turn a page of memory and you perchance might hear the "thump", "thump", echoing in the valley Charbonneau as Temeekuyam women pound husked acorns into The youngest person il) the Lewis & Clark expedition was wiiwish using the the baby born to Sacagawea and carried in a cradleboard toopal pi' pumaa' (pestle and mortar). Granite on her back for most of the trek to Oregon 200 years ago. mortar holes testify to the centuries-old method. Born in 1805, the infant's parents, French Canadian Sadly, I have witnessed these treasured boulders trader Toussaint Charbonneau and his Shoshone wife, being pounded again and again until crushed into Sacagawea, named him Jean Baptiste. Nicknamed riprap. Pompey by Clark, he was quite simply called Pomp.

How many more secrets does this valley hold? But a name was not all Clark bestowed. After the great Each grove, each arroyo, and each rift in the rim Corps of Discovery expedition, Pomp and his parents rock claims attractions all its own. With were provided patronage in St. Louis for several years, and Clark continued to watch over the upbringing and oncoming encroachment and progress, a handful education of his young friend. At age 18, Pomp spent six of artifacts, photos, dead insects pinned to a box, years traveling through Europe where he was befriended and pressed leaves will be our only sources for by others, notably German Prince Paul Wilhelm. When recollection. he returned to the United States in about 1829, he served as an alcalde, or magistrate, of the San Luis Rey They may testify as to how things were, but they Mission in what is now Oceanside, CA. can never capture the beauty that once touched the heart. As a fur trapper, mountain man, and wilderness scout, his life was one of high adventure, exploration, learning, Unfortunately, the burden of generation and service to the U.S. Army. He passed this way, coming through Temecula on his final trek from Southern conservatorship eventually begins to take hold California to Oregon. There he is burried. His grave is in again and now dissipates my portal's curtain-and Jordan Valley, in the of southeastern Oregon, <.:» this simple interlude of mine finally fades into the on roads that are sometimes icy and always treacherous. reality of today. Storybooks about Jean Baptiste Charbonneau can be purchased in the gift shop of the Temecula Museum, 28314 Mercedes Paul J. Price is a well-known artist, archaeologist, Street, Temecula. The Musem is situated in Sam Hicks Monument Park where a granite stone of great size is engraved teacher, and an expert on Luisefio culture (which with the names of many famous pioneers, explorers, and he has studied for over 40 years) and has settlers. The name "Jean Baptiste Charbonneau" is there, dedicated his life to learning and conservation. commemorating his life and travels in Temecula Valley. This interest has earned him a Superior Achievement Award from the State of California Lewis & Clark Bicentennial in 2002. An avid researcher and reader, he has also compiled a large natural history collection. 2005 marks the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark's Corps of His artwork can be seen throughout the Pechanga Discovery expedition. Communities all along the trail are Resort and Casino in Temecula. This outspoken, gearing up for celebrations. Sunset Magazine published a map of the expedition route in their March 2004 issue, as well as sometimes controversial gentleman resides in some of the festivities planned from Idaho to Oregon. Canyon Lake with his wife, Kathi. In his article, Peter Fish says, "...little Pomp innocently linked Native America and Europe and civilization and wilderness, [and] throughout his life, seemed to display an optimistic appetite for whatever would come next."

The wilderness that once surrounded Temecula likely provided Pomp some fishing and gaming for his sustenance, as well as a chance to talk with and live briefly among the Luiseno Indians, who like himself, were decended from the Shoshone. An Eagle's View morality lessons, emphasizing 4,500 cattle at all times, shifting by Rebecca Marshall Farnbach respect for elders and cleanliness. them to different grazing lands They were reminded their god was when needed. The fattened cattle .ongago, before the padrescameto always watching and would reward were driven to Calexico or shipped Temecula Valley, soaring eagles them accordingto their deeds. to Los Angeles via the train from would have spied thin plumes of Temecula. smoke rising midst clusters of The natives subsisted mainly on kishas, domed reed dwellings built weewisti, ground acorn meal, Duringa cattle drive, the eleven-day near streams where nature was the supplemented with chia seeds and drip over rough terrain would cause supermarket, teeming with produce grass, deer, rabbits and wood rats. the animals to lose some weight, andgameto supplya village. Gamewas killed by bow and arrow which would lower their value. Plus or trapped in woven nets. it was an arduous task to get the Who were the residents of the stock from Temeculato Calexico. villages? Historians believe they Acorns were cracked, shelled and were people of the ancient left to dry for a couple of days Temeculaseemedlike the center of migration from Asia into North before poundingwith a stone mono all of Southern California after the America, who later developed into on a metate. Tannic acid was railroad came during the 1880's. the Shoshone, Ute and Pai-ute leachedfrom the acorns by pouring RanchersfromJulian, SanFelipeand (meaning water-people) tribes of water through the meal. WarnerSpringsdrove their cattle to the Northwest. Temeculafor shipping. Eagles watched the unchanging Migrating south, they spread into village rituals until newcomers To go alongwith the cattle industry, warm lands with ample food convergedon the scene, giving the dry farming of hay and other grains supplies and fresh water, selecting residentsa name and changingtheir was big businessin the Temecula locations suitable for defense lives forever. area. On any night excepting for against enemies. Phil Brigandi Sunday,asmanyastwelve to fifteen mentions in his book, Temecula: At teams of eight to ten horses or 7e Crossroads of History, that mules on jerklines stood on Front here were probably about 50 Street, Temecula. A person had to villages located near what is now walk around a team to get across known as , Temecula the street. andSanJacinto. DavidCobb,a ranch hand from 1902 Tom Hudson cites in his book, A to 1907, told an interviewer that a Thousand Years in Temecula Valley, lot of business was done in that Tetnet, the sun, was their Temecula, and it was accomplished father, and the earth was their without a written contract. If a mother. Their one god, cattleman agreed to sell his stock Chungichnish, punished wrongdoing A Scene from Temecula's for a certain price and the seller by mauling a bear, a snakebite or Past shook hands on the deal, it was a sure thing. The buyer would be at affliction from poison oak. A holy by Rebecca Marshall Farnbach man, Wiyot, lived with them before the ranch the following June with dying near the shore of Lake It wasn't uncommon in the early money. Elsinore. He rose to become the 1900sfor the Pauba Ranch to buy moon, which shinesbrightly thirteen cattle and ship them by train from times each year to remind his Mexico or Utah. The cattle peopleof histeachings. purchased were "feeders," which were one-, one-and-a-half or Brigandi describes puberty rituals. two-year-olds that would fatten in Girls were buried to their necksin a the ample grazing country near heated pit for three days. Boys Temecula. ere given a hallucinogenfrom the .atura plant, then made to dance The 45,000-acre Pauba Ranch around a fire. A tribal leader gave operated to capacity with about The Deacon's Masterpiece "Fur," said the Deacon, "'t's migbty Colts grew horses, beards turned or "The One-Boss Shay" plain gray, by Oliver Wendell Holmes Tbut tbe weakes' places mus' stan' Deacon and deaconess dropped the strain: away, Have you heard of the wonderful 'N' tbe t' fix it, us I maintain, Children and grandchildren - where one-hoss shay, Is only jest were they? That was built in such a logical way T' make that place us strong us the But there stood the stout old one-hoss It ran a hundred years to a day, rest." shay And then, of a sudden, it - ah, but As fresh as on stay, Lisbon-earthquake-day! I'll tell you what happened without EIGHTEEN HUNDRED; -- it came delay, and found Scaring the parson into fits, The Deacon's masterpiece strong and Frightening people out of their wits, sound. Have you heard of that, I say? Eighteen hundred and twenty came; So the Deacon inquired of the village Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. folk Running as usual; much, the same. Georgius Secundus was then alive, -- Where he could find the strongest Thirty and forty at last arrive, Snuffy old drone from the German oak, And then come fifty, and hive. That couldn't be split nor bent nor FIFTY-FIVE. That was the year when Lisbon-town broke, -- Saw the earth open and gulp her That was for spokes and floor and Little of all we value here down, sills: Wakes on the morn of its hundredth And Braddock's army was done so He sent for lancewood to make the year brown, thills; Without both feeling and looking Left without a scalp to its crown. The crossbars were ash, from the queer. It was on the terrible, sraightest trees; In fact, there's nothing that keeps its Earthquake-day The panels of white-wood, that cuts youth, That the Deacon finished the like cheese, So far as I know, but a tree and one-hoss shay. But lasts like iron for things like truth. tbese; (This is a moral that runs at large; Now in building of chaises, I tell you Tbe bubs of logs from the "Settler's Take it. You're welcome. No extra what, ellum," - charge.) There is always somewhere a weakest Last of its timber, - tbey couldn't sell FIRST OF NOVEMBER, - the spot, -- 'em, Earthquake-day. - In hub, tire, felloe, in spring or thill, Never an axe bad seen their chips, There are traces of age in the In panel, or crossbar, or floor, or sill, And the wedges flew from between one-hoss shay, In screw, bolt, thoroughbrace,- tbeir lips, A general flavor of mild decay, lurking still, Tbeir blunt ends frizzled like But nothing local as one may say. Find it somewhere you must and will, celery-tips; There couldn't be, - for the Deacon's Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, art Above or below, or within or Had made it so like in every part without, - Spring, tire, axle, and lincbpin too, That there wasn't a chance for one to And that's tbe reason, beyond a Steel of the finest, bright and blue; start. doubt, Tborougbbrace bison-skin, tbick and For the wheels were just as strong as A chaise breaks down, but doesn't wide; the thills, wear out: Boot, top, dasher, from tough old And the floor was just as strong as But the Deacon swore (as Deacons bide the sills, do, Found in the pit when tbe tanner And the panels just as strong as the Witb an "I dew vum," or an "I tell died. floor, yeou") That was the way he "put her And the whippletree neither less nor He would build one shay to beat the tbrough." -- more, taown "Tbere!" said the Deacon, "naow And the back-crossbar as strong as 'N the keounty 'n' all the kentry she'll dew!" the fore, raoun': And spring and axle and hub encore. It should be so built that it couldn' Do! I tell you, I rather guess And yet, as a whole, it is past a doubt break daown: She was a wonder, and nothing less! In another hour it will be worn out! First of November, "Fifty-five! This morning the parson takes a drive. DEDICATION "low, small boys, get out of the way! Iere comes the wonderful one-boss shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked This edition of the newsletter bay. is dedicated to "Huddup! said tbe parson. Off went tbey. The parson was working bis Sunday's text, - Had got toflfthly, and stopped perplexed.

At wbat tbe -- Moses - was coming next. who's living was filled All at once tbe borse stood still, Close by the meet'n'-bouse on the with grace and gentleness. hill. - First a shiver, and then a thrill, Then something decidedly like a spill, In particular, we shall And the parson was sitting up on a miss her knowledge of this valley rock, At half-past nine by tbe as it used to be, and the meet'n'-house clock,- Just the hour of tbe Eartbquake sense of humor which characterized sbock! - What do you think tbe parson her retelling of past events. 'nmd, hen he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, We dare to think that she would As if it bad been to the mill and ground! see the humor in You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, "The Deacon's Masterpiece" How it went to pieces all at once, - with it's wit and rhythm, with it's words All at once, and nothing first, -- Just as bubbles do when tbey burst. strung together so wrongly End of tbe wonderful one-boss sbay, yet so wisely. Logic is logic. That's all I say.

For as "bubbles do when they burst", Mildred wore out all at once.

We gratefully acknowledge that in lieu of flowers, Mildred's family requested donations be made to this Society to support the organization's ongoing goals of history, education and preservation. Arts in the Country: A Festival of Music, ANNUAL DUES Dance,Art Celebrating their 15th year in Temecula Valley, the Arts Effective June 1, 2004 Council of Temecula Valley presents their 14th Annual dues for new members are: Arts in the Country Festival. This 8-week calendar of special community events began on May 1, and will continue through Sunday, June 27, Student $10 with a wide variety of programs sure to please and Single $25 delight all tastes. Family $35 In addition, five (5) monthly events are scheduledAugust thru December. Dues received after the For reservations, locations, dates and costs Of individual the 30 day renewal period events, please contact The Arts Council of Temecula Valley at (909) 695-2787, or fax to (909) 695-9438. will be at the new rate.

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