This episode is to honor and respect California Indian Day, September 27. We’ll explore California Bird Songs.
Hello all,
This episode of the Tracks 4 D Day podcast is dedicated to honoring and respecting California Indian Day, observed on September 27. We’ll explore California Bird Songs and provide some personal insight into the importance of this music for Southern California tribes.
2024 Native American Day Proclamation
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Music Examples:
Wikimallem Taxmuatem Song 1 | Cahuilla Bird Singers | 2025 Pechanga Pow Wow.
“This group of Cahuilla Bird Singers are Indigenous people to the local area near Pechanga Reservation Temecula, CA. They are our neighbors to the north of Luiseño Aboriginal Territory. Birds songs nearly died out, around 30 years ago a man named Robert Levi took the initiative to gather a small group of men to learn the songs, the timing of the rattles, the meaning of the songs. Year by year Bird Songs grew stronger. Now, nearly every reservation here in Southern California has a Bird Singing group. With this re-birth, connections to our brothers and sisters from the desert tribes were made. A quote by Robert Levi, ‘Bird Songs never really died, it just went to sleep’” (Noxiumm, YouTube, January 2025).
Pala Rez Bird Singers, posted February 2009.
Closing Night Reception – Chumash Intertribal Bird Singers, LA Skins Fest, 2011.
Alvino Siva Los Coyotes Indian Reservation Bird Singer, “We Are Birds” (music excerpt from the documentary), posted February 2017.
Frankie Morreo: TM Cahuilla Bird Singer “We Are Birds” (excerpt from the documentary), posted June 2014.
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Alan Lechusza Aquallo
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