1. Introduction
2. The Cahuilla Physical Environment
3. Plant Environment
4. Faunal Environment
6. Social Structure and Organization
7. Other Institutions
8. Ritual
9. World View: Existential and Normative Postulates
10. Conclusions

Bibliography

"Since Cahuilla culture has not been adequately studied or described in the past, a straightforward ethnographic presentation alone would have made this a valuable book. However, Bean adds greater depth to the study by posing a series of hypotheses and problems which are then examined in the light of the Cahuilla date. . . . Mukat's People is a tightly-written and informative book, and was a great pleasure to read."—California Historical Quarterly

"Bean presents a fairly complete description of one of California's lesser-known Indian tribes before it underwent extensive cultural changes. Combining archaeological, ethnohistorical, and earlier ethnographic descriptions with his own field observation., Bean presents a technical and well-rounded picture of Cahuilla social structure, ritual, world view, and the semi-desert ecological niche to which the tribe successfully adapted. A welcome addition to the study of ecology, hunters and gatherers, desert living, and California Indians."—Choice

"A new anthropological approach to the understanding of native California cultures based on ethnographic and archaeological findings, historical documents, and the memories of present-day Cahuilla results in a reconstruction of Cahuilla culture as it existed at the beginning of the Spanish period."—Western Historical Quarterly