Community Spotlight: Agua Caliente
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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
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content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2024, Item SFF2024_0628_IVA_Studio_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: William Chimborazo (Presenter); Jacinda S. Townsend (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians); John Preckwinkle III (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians); Jimmy Gilmore (Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians); Isabella Dodd (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians); Dakota Galindo (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians) Sit down with the Agua Caliente Bird Singers and learn more about their community and traditions. 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.