Katherine Siva Saubel, American Cahuilla tribal leader and activist, one of the last speakers of the Cahuilla language, died she was 91.

Katherine Siva Saubel was a Native American scholar, educator, tribal leader, author, and activist committed to preserving her Cahuilla history, culture and language  died she was 91.. Her efforts focused on preserving the language of the Cahuilla people. Saubel is acknowledged nationally and internationally as one of California’s most respected Native American leaders. She received an honorary PhD in philosophy from La Sierra University, Riverside, California, and was awarded the Chancellor’s Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the University of California at the University of California, Riverside.
Saubel was an enrolled member of Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians and served as their tribal chairperson.^[3]

^{(March 7, 1920[1] – November 1, 2011[2])} 

Early life and education

Saubel, the eighth of eleven children, grew up speaking only the Cahuilla language until she entered school at age seven.^[4] Her mother, Melana Sawaxell, could only speak Cahuilla. Her father, Juan C. Siva, eventually mastered four languages: Cahuilla, Spanish, Latin, and English. While in high school, Katherine grew alarmed when she found that as she spoke Cahuilla to her friends, they would respond back to her in English. She worried that her people were losing their language. She began writing down the names and uses of the plants and herbs she learned from her mother as she gathered with her.
This notebook later became Temalpakh: (From the Earth) Cahuilla Indian knowledge and usage of plants that she collaborated on with anthropologist Dr. Lowell John Bean for ten years and was published by Malki Museum's Malki Press in 1972. Temalpakh demonstrates the depth of Saubel’s expertise in Cahuilla culture, and the second major focus of her scholarship: native ethnobotany, the study of the plant lore and agricultural customs of a people or specific ethnic group. Saubel was an expert on the unique Cahuilla uses of such plants as mesquite, screw bean, oak, acorn, datura, and others.

Further work

In 1962, Saubel worked with the professor of American linguistics, William Bright, on his studies of the Cahuilla language and as he prepared several publications. She also taught classes with Bright and with professor Pamela Munro of UCLA, and served as co-author with Munro on Chem’i’vullu: Let’s Speak Cahuilla, published by UCLA in 1981.
Starting in 1964, Saubel worked on Cahuilla language research with linguist Professor Hansjakob Seiler of the University of Cologne, Germany, to do further work on providing an authentic written translation of the Cahuilla language that had previously existed only in spoken form. Their work together resulted in the publication of both a Cahuilla reference grammar and dictionary. Saubel also published her own dictionary, I’sniyatam Designs, a Cahuilla Word Book. Her work includes several authentic transcriptions and English translations of Cahuilla folklore.
Jane Penn, a cultural leader on the Malki Cahuilla reservation at Banning, California (which was renamed Morongo Reservation), had conceived in 1958 of opening a reservation museum where she could display her extensive collection of Cahuilla artifacts and create a cultural preservation center for the reservation. With the help of Lowell John Bean, who was an anthropology graduate student at that time, and the support of Penn's husband Elmer and Katherine Siva Saubel's husband Mariano, the group obtained non-profit status for Malki Museum on the Morongo Indian Reservation in Banning, California. Saubel, Penn's relative by marriage, was asked to become the president of Malki, while Penn became its director and treasurer.The first nonprofit museum on an Indian reservation opened its doors to the public in February 1965, and continues to display artifacts from prehistoric to recent times. Malki Press, the museum's publishing arm, recently purchased Ballena Press from authors Lowell John Bean and Sylvia Brakke Vane, enabling the museum to continue to publish scholarly works on Southern California's Native Americans.

Recognition

Saubel’s research has appeared internationally in government, academic and museum publications. Her knowledge of Cahuilla ethnobotany and tribal affairs has prompted US state and federal legislative committees to seek out her testimony. Past and current governors of California have honored her, and she has been appointed to numerous commissions and agencies.
For many years, she served on the Riverside County Historical Commission, which selected her County Historian of the Year in 1986. In 1987, she was recognized as "Elder of the Year" by the California State Indian Museum. Governor Jerry Brown appointed her to the California Native American Heritage Commission in 1982. In this capacity she has worked to preserve sacred sites and protect Indian remains.
Saubel has testified as an expert on Native American culture and history to the California legislature, the United States Congress, and various boards, commissions, and agencies.
Her writings have been published by government agencies, academic institutions, and museums, and she has taught Cahuilla history, literature, and culture at UC Riverside, UCLA, California State University, Hayward, the University of Cologne, and Hachinohe University in Japan. In 2004 her book, Isill Heqwas Waxizh: A Dried Coyote's Tail, co-authored with Cahuilla, Cupeno, Luiseño, and Serrano linguist Dr. Eric Elliot, was published by Malki Museum Press.
Her awards include:

• First Recipient of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian Art and Culture Award (1994)
• California State Indian Museum – Elder of the Year (1987)^[5]:152
• The Desert Protective Council Award
• YWCA Woman of Achievement Award (Riverside County, California)
• Bridge To Peace Award
• Latino and Native American Hall of Fame (Riverside, California)
• First Recipient of the California Indian Heritage Preservation Award by the Society for California Archaeology (2000)
• Indian of the Year – California Indian Conference (2000)
• First Native American woman inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York (1993)^[6]

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Seppo Sanaksenaho, Finnish politician, Mayor of Vaasa (1997–2001), died he was 73.

Seppo Sanaksenaho  was a Finnish politician who served as the Mayor of Vaasa from 1997 to 2001.^[1]

 

^{(May 5, 1938 – November 1, 2011)}

Sanaksenaho was born in Oulu, Finland, in 1938.^[1] He earned an engineering degree from the Helsinki University of Technology, which now forms part of Aalto University.^[1] Sanaksenaho received a master's degree in engineering from Pennsylvania State University in the United States.^[1]
Sanaksenaho worked as an engineer for the cities of Porvoo and Helsinki during his early career.^[1] He served as the deputy mayor of Vaasa from 1979 to 1996, before becoming the city's Mayor in 1997.^[1]
Seppo Sanaksenaho died on November 1, 2011, at the age 73.^[1]

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Eilaine Roth, American baseball player (AAGPBL), died she was 82.

Eilaine Roth was an outfielder who played from 1948 through 1951 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 2", 123 lb., she batted and threw right-handed died she was 82..^[1]

^{(January 17, 1929 – November 1, 2011)} 

Born in Michigan City, Indiana, Eilaine Roth was the daughter of Herman and Elsie (née Kumnatzke) Roth. Younger than twin sister Elaine by fifteen minutes, Roth spent four years in the league mainly as a right fielder and pinch-hitter, while her sister was a pitcher for seven years. The twins attended Elston High School, graduating in 1946.^[2]
The Roth twins joined the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1948 with the Peoria Redwings. They played together for two years as the "dynamic duo" (″E″ and ″I″), because it worked well for promotion, but when the team folded before the 1951 season, Eilaine was relocated to the Kalamazoo Lassies and Ellaine joined the South Bend Blue Sox. In 1953, the sisters came together again in Kalamazoo.^[3]
Her most productive season came in 1950, when she posted career numbers in games played (107), hits (78) and stolen bases (64), while hitting a .202 average. Used sparingly in 1954, she hit .251 (52-for-207) in 79 games.^[4]
After leaving the league, Roth played slow-pitch softball in a factory league from 1954 to 1957. She later worked 21 years as an inspector for Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan.^[5]
Eilaine Roth died in Springfield, Michigan, aged 82, following complications from cancer.^[1]

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Dorothy Howell Rodham, American homemaker, mother of Hillary Rodham Clinton, died she was 92.

Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham was an American homemaker and mother of First Lady, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.  died she was 92.



(June 4, 1919 – November 1, 2011)

Dorothy Howell was born in Chicago, the daughter of Edwin John Howell, Jr. (1897–1946), a Chicago firefighter,^[4] and Della Murray (1902–1960).^[5][6] Her sister is Isabelle Howell (born 1924).^[4] Her ancestry included Welsh, English, Scottish, French, and Dutch; her paternal grandfather was an immigrant from Bristol in Gloucester, and many of her recent forebears had lived in Canada.^[5]
Dorothy's childhood has been described as Dickensian.^[6][7] The family lived as boarders in a crowded house.^[6] The parents were dysfunctional and unhappy^[8] and prone to sometimes violent fights;^[6] they moved Dorothy amongst various schools,^[3] and paid only sporadic attention to the children before divorcing in 1927.^[4] The children were then sent on a train by themselves, unsupervised (Dorothy was eight, Isabelle younger), to live with their paternal grandparents in the Los Angeles suburb of Alhambra, California.^[3][8][9] The sisters endured harsh treatment from their grandparents and Dorothy left home at age 14 at the height of the Great Depression, working as a $3-per-week housekeeper, cook, and nanny in San Gabriel, California.^[6][8] Encouraged by her employer to read and go to school, Dorothy attended Alhambra High School, where she joined several clubs and benefited from two teachers.^[6] After graduating from there in 1937,^[10] she moved to Chicago for a failed reunion with her mother,^[4][8] who by then had gotten married to Max Rosenberg.^[11] Subsequently, she moved into her own apartment there and took office jobs to support herself.^[3][4] She later said, "I’d hoped so hard that my mother would love me that I had to take the chance and find out. When she didn’t, I had nowhere else to go."^[6] Hillary Clinton later attributed her interest in children's welfare to her mother's life as well as her belief that caring adults outside of family can fill a child's emotional voids.^[6]
While applying for a job as a clerk typist at a textile company, she met traveling salesman Hugh Ellsworth Rodham,^[4] eight years her senior, in 1937.^[12] After a lengthy courtship, they married in early 1942.^[4] She became a full-time homemaker, raising three children, Hillary, Hugh and Tony, in suburban Park Ridge, Illinois. She encouraged Hillary to have a love for learning and to pursue an education and a career, though she had never done so herself.^[8] In contrast to her husband's staunch Republican views,^[13] Dorothy Rodham was, as her daughter later wrote, "basically a Democrat, although she kept it quiet in Republican Park Ridge."^[4]
In 1987, Rodham and her husband moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, to be closer to their daughter and granddaughter, Chelsea.^[11] An excellent student as a youth, Rodham now took college courses in subjects such as psychology, logic, and child development, although she never graduated.^[4][11] Her daughter later wrote, "I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman."^[3]

Hugh Rodham died in 1993. Dorothy Rodham remained active but valued her privacy and almost never spoke to the media,^[8] although she appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2004.^[14] In 2006, she moved into the Clintons' large Whitehaven house in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C.^[8][14][15]
Starting in December 2007 she made a rare public appearance in Iowa and other early primary states to campaign for her daughter's presidential nomination bid.^[3][16] She appeared at some events concerning women's issues and also appeared in a Clinton campaign television advertisement.^[3][17]
Dorothy Rodham died on November 1, 2011, in Washington, D.C., with Secretary Clinton cancelling a foreign trip in order to be by her side.^[3]


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Sergio Montiel, Argentine politician, Governor of Entre Ríos (1983–1987; 1999–2003), died he was 84.

Sergio Alberto Montiel  was an Argentinian politician, lawyer, and professor of constitutional law at the National University of the Littoral. Monitel served as Governor of Entre Ríos Province for two nonconsecutive terms died he was 84.: He was first elected on October 30, 1983, and served his first term until 1987.^[1] Montiel served a second gubernatorial term from 1999 to 2003.^[1] Montiel supported nationalization and opposed the 1993 Pact of Olivos.<sup>[1]

(October 20, 1927 – November 1, 2011)</sup>

Montiel was born in October 20, 1927, in Concepción del Uruguay, Argentina.^[1] He died of cardiac arrest at Militar de Paraná, a military hospital in Paraná, Entre Ríos, on November 1, 2011, at the age of 84. ^[1]
He was an active freemason.


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Christiane Legrand, French jazz singer, died she was 81.

Christiane Legrand was a French singer died she was 81..

(21 August 1930 – 1 November 2011^[1] )

Legrand was born in Paris, the daughter of film composer Raymond Legrand, who wrote "Irma la Douce."
She studied piano and classical music from the time she was four. Jazz critic and composer André Hodeir discovered her in 1957, and she became the lead singer in the most notable French jazz vocal groups of the 1960s, including Les Double Six.^[2]
She was the original lead soprano of the Swingle Singers and was the vocalist who dubbed the part of Madame Emery in Les parapluies de Cherbourg, the music for which was composed by her brother Michel Legrand. She also sang the part of Judith in his Les demoiselles de Rochefort.
Christiane did the French dubbing for the title role of Disney's film Mary Poppins (1964) and lent her talents to numerous other film projects.
Christiane was the featured soprano on the track "Fires (Which Burn Brightly)" on the 1973 Procol Harum album Grand Hotel. Her niece Victoria Legrand is a member of the American indie rock group Beach House.


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André Hodeir, 90, French author, jazz arranger and composer, died he was 90.

André Hodeir  was a French violinist, composer, arranger and musicologist died he was 90.

(January 22, 1921 – November 1, 2011^[1])

Biography

André Hodeir was born in Paris. His initial training was as a classical violinist and composer. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he took Olivier Messiaen's analysis class, and won first prizes in fugue, harmony, and music history. While pursuing these studies, he discovered jazz, and embarked on an exploration of all music forms, jazz as well as classical. Subsequently as a critic he expressed vigorous disgust with nearly all early jazz (Jazz: Its Evolution and Essence; 1957).
Hodeir was a founder, in 1954, and director of Jazz Groupe de Paris, made up of nine musicians, including Bobby Jaspar, Pierre Michelot and Nat Peck. He was the author of two books of Essais (1954 and 1956), of numerous film scores, including Le Palais Idéal by Ado Kyrou, the Jazz Cantata for the film Chutes de pierres, danger de mort by Michel Fano, etc. Hodeir was the founder of his own orchestra during the Sixties (Catalyse, Arte della commedia dell', Transplantation, Crepuscule with Nelly, etc., available in an album by Martial Solal, in 1984). He composed, in 1966, the monumental jazz cantata Anna Livia Plurabelle, on James Joyce's text, and in 1972 of Bitter Ending, by The Swingle Singers and a jazz quintet, on the final monologue of Finnegans Wake.^[2]

Discography

• 1954 : The Vogue Sessions (BMG, R/1999)
• 1956 : Le Jazz Groupe de Paris joue André Hodeir (coll. Jazz in Paris, Universal, R/2001)
• 1957 : The Alphabet et autres essais (not available on CD)
• 1959 : Kenny Clarke's Sextet joue André Hodeir (coll. Jazz in Paris, Universal, R/2002)^[3]
• 1960 : Jazz et jazz (coll. Jazz in Paris, Universal, R/2004)
• 1966 : Anna Livia Plurabelle (second version Patrice Caratini in 1994, Label Bleu)
• 1972 : Bitter Ending (not available on CD)
• 1984 : Martial Solal et son orchestre jouent André Hodeir (Carlyne Music, 1984)

Bibliography

• André Hodeir, Le Jazz, cet inconnu, preface by Charles Delaunay, collection "Harmoniques", Éditions France-Empire, 1945
• Si seulement la vie : nouvelles (2001)
• Les aventures de la chevalière, (1983 historical novel for children)
• La chevalière et le panache blanc, (1983 historical novel for children)
• Le Rire de Swann, ed. Rouge Profond, coll. Birdland, Paris 2006
• Le Joueur de violon (Musikant)
• La Musique depuis Debussy, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1961
• Hommes et problèmes du jazz, Flammarion, Paris, 1954, re-released by Parenthèses, coll. Epistrophy, Paris 1981, 3 printings, then coll. Eupalinos, 2008
• Les Formes de la Musique, Presses Universitaires de France, coll. "Que sais-je ?" n° 478, Paris
• Jazzistiques ed. Parenthèses, coll. Epistrophy, Paris 2004
• Les Mondes du Jazz , ed. Rouge Profond, Paris 2004
• The André Hodeir Jazz Reader, Michigan University Press, 2006
• Pierre Fargeton, Le Jazz comme œuvre composée : le cas d'André Hodeir (2006, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Université Jean-Monnet (Saint-Étienne))
• Christian Tarting, article Hodeir, André (Dictionnaire du jazz, ed. Robert Laffont, coll. Bouquins)

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