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Written, produced and directed by: Leigh Podgorski. The story of inspirational leader and elder Katherine Siva Saubel and the Cahuilla Indians of Southern California, told through original legends, narrative, and scenes from Mrs. Saubel's extraordinary life.

Featuring the following cast:
John Belindo (Kiowa/Navajo); Larissa Fasthorse (Lakota), Kait Matthews (Ojibway Nation); DeLanna Studi (Cherokee); Marjorie Tanin (Santa Clara Pueblo-Tewa); Michael Wise (Cherokee/Caddo) *original production directed by: Carole Nee-Takey Marie (Chickasaw/Cherokee) Not available for this performance: Yannick Masse (Algonquian/Cree); Princess Peter-Raboff (Gwich'in Athabascan); Alex Kawisenhawe Rice (Mohawk)

-Katherine Siva Saubel was born in 1920 on the Los Coyotes Reservation. She is the first female Native American graduate from Palm Springs High and is a respected elder and international scholar. Mrs. Saubel's further education continued after her marriage and the raising of her son, Alan. At the age of 42, she received a scholarship from the Kennedy Administration to study anthropology. She has studied and lectured around the world on Cahuilla grammar and tales. In 1964, with her husband, Mariano Saubel, and her friend Jane Penn, she founded the Malki Museum at the Morongo Reservation, which is dedicated to the preservation of the Cahuilla language and culture.

-Leigh Podgorski has written other plays, including "They Dance to the Sun," a trilogy which follows the saga of a Ute Family through 100 years of American history. Her play "Windstorm," about Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, who pioneered rights for the dying, was presented last year as part of the 1999 CelebrateWomen theater festival.