Parker History presents An Indigenous History of Music

Parker History presents An Indigenous History of Music

Parker History presents an afternoon of history and stories encompassing Pioneer and Native American cultures with Leon Joseph Littlebird.

With multi-generation ancestral roots in both Pioneer and Native American cultures, Littlebird inherited a passion for local history, storytelling and music. This passion inspired him to do years of research into the oral and recorded histories of his ancestors and the neighboring tribes. Littlebird delights his audiences with stories that weave the lives and talents of the earliest inhabitants of Colorado into a fascinating series of “how music was discovered.” Using many types of ancient instruments, he performs examples of how music came to be an integral part of life in the tribes from mountains to plains and the Southwest. Made possible in part by SCFD.