Native Song Traditions
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 June 29
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0629_SOCA_Stage_and_Plaza_0005
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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: Preston Jefferson Arrow-weed; Helena Quintana Arrow-weed; Martha Rodriguez; Stan Rodriguez; [Performers] Preston J. Arrow-weed (Quechan/Kamya) and Helena Quintana Arrow-weed (Pueblo) are educators, and environmentalists with intimate knowledge of tribal songs and dances. Preston is a member of the Quechan Tribe of California and raised by his Kamya grandmother, he is a native speaker of both languages, which are Hokan dialects spoken by people living around the U.S.-Mexico border in California and Arizona. Helena is a bilingual educator and environmentalist. She has worked as a reference librarian, elementary school and ESL teacher, and assistant professor of education in New Mexico, Texas, and California. Originally from New Mexico, she knows the dances that accompany her husband Preston's tribal songs. Stan Rodriguez (Santa Ysabel Band of the Iipay Nation) is an educator, language teacher, and tribal singer. He is an advocate for his community's culture and traditions and serves in a number of advising and teaching roles in the San Diego and Native Kumeyaay communities.Marta Rodriguez (San Jose de la Zorra Kumeyaay Community) is a potter, basket weaver, and tribal singer and dancer. She was born and raised in San Jose de la Zorra, one of the five Kumeyaay communities in Baja California, which is renowned for its traditional basket weavers.