Ernest Siva: Calling All Dragonflies
Channel: Dorothy Ramon Learning Center
Date: 2020-07-02

The Dragonfly Song is a Serrano/Cahuilla Native American lullaby. In this at-home video, Ernest Siva, Cahuilla-Serrano Elder and President of Dorothy Ramon Learning Center, teaches you how to call a dragonfly. (His voice drops intentionally as part of the lullaby.)  "If you see a dragonfly hovering about and you sing this song, the dragonfly will either come near you, or stay away from you. ... The teaching goes, if you are kind and have kind thoughts, he will come to you. (Siva, Voices of the Flute, 2004)"
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