Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians Bird Singers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording
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content: 2024 June 28
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2024, Item SFF2024_0628_IVA_FourDirections_0004
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copy available
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content: Cindy Benitez (Presenter); Bird Singers of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians: Anthony Purnel (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians); Dakota Galindo (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians); Diego Jaime (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians); Elias Adair (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians); Isabella Dodd (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians); Jacinda S. Townsend (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians); Jimmy Gilmore (Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians); John Preckwinkle III (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians); Jorge Hernandez (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians); Makala L. Pete (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians); Marina Elizondo-Bentiste (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians); Savana Saubel (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians); Shalina Elizondo (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians) The bird singers steward a repertoire of hundreds of songs in the Cahuilla language that recall the history of the people and their migration. Agua Caliente bird singers have revitalized this ancestral tradition with its songs, rattles, and dances, and today the tribe hosts Singing the Birds, an intertribal gathering that celebrates bird singing from many Southern California Native communities.