Here's info for an important upcoming community event from the City of Temecula:
- November 15, 2023 is Pechanga Pu’éska Mountain Day. Pechanga Pu’éska Mountain Day was proclaimed a City holiday by the City of Temecula in 2012 to celebrate the native culture and heritage of the Pechanga Band of Indians. The City of Temecula, in partnership with the Pechanga Tribe, has proudly observed “Pechanga Pu’éska Mountain Day” together each year on November 15th.
The story behind Pechanga Pu’éska Mountain Day was created into a powerful, award-winning film in 2019 by Brad Munoa, a member of the Pechanga Band of Indians and a Writer, Director, and Producer for the Pechanga Creative Studios. It documents the 7-plus year monumental people’s movement and its momentous culmination in the protection of Pu’éska Mountain, and the quality of life for the people in Temecula. The proposed "Liberty Quarry" would have been among the largest gravel pits in the United States and would have excavated Pu'éska Mountain. "More than just a development vs. environment story, The Mountain that Weeps explores which force is stronger, the power of community, the corruption of politics, or reverence for the sacred," as stated on the website www.mountainthatweeps.com.
The annual holiday is an opportunity to commemorate the profound ways in which the Pechanga Tribe, Temecula’s first peoples, has shaped the community’s character and heritage, and to thank the Tribe for saving Pu'éska Mountain and, in doing so, protecting the quality of life in Temecula.
Join us for Pechanga Pu’éska Mountain Day: Temecula City Hall, 41000 Main Street Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 4:30pm (We Encourage Early Arrival for Seating)
•Proclamation Recital
•Mountain that Weeps Documentary Film Viewing
•Appetizers/Dessert
Pechanga established “Great Oak Press” in order to provide an avenue by which Native voices and topics of significance and importance to Native Americans could find their way into contemporary discourse and become both a growing and permanent part of recorded knowledge. For language and indigenous studies resources, visit GreatOakPress.com.