Land, Migration & Song
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 4: Sounds of California / Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2016 July 02
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0702_SOCA_Stage_and_Plaza_0002
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: Theo Gonzalves (presenter); Hina Wong-Kalu; Preston J. Arrow-weed (participants) Preston J. Arrow-weed, Quechan/Kamya elder and tribal singer, performs and discusses the songs that explain the origins of his community and its relationship to the specific terrain of the local landscape. Arrow-weed is the last singer of Urave, the Quechan Lightning Song, and he has been a strong advocate for the protection of sacred sites and ecosystems of the lower Colorado River region. He is joined in conversation with guest Hina Wong- Kalu, a Native Hawaiian teacher (kumu) and artist. Wong founded Kulia Na Mamo transgender health project and worked as cultural director of a Hawaiian public charter school. She also served as the Chair of the O'ahu Island Burial Council, which oversees the management of Native Hawaiian burial sites and ancestral remains.