Western Shoshone traditional narratives
- Western Shoshone traditional narratives
Western Shoshone traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Western Shoshone people of eastern California and western Nevada.
Western Shoshone oral literature shares many of its narratives with the Western Shoshone's Numic kinsmen in the Great Basin, the Mono, Northern Paiute, Southern Paiute, and Kawaiisu. ("See also" Traditional narratives (Native California).)
ources for Western Shoshone Narratives
* Steward, Julian H. 1936. "Myths of the Owens Valley Paiute". "University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology" 34:355-440. Berkeley. (Four Lone Pine Shoshone myths including Theft of Fire, pp. 434-436.)
* Steward, Julian H. 1943. "Some Western Shoshoni Myths". "Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin" 136:249-299. Washington, D.C. (Myths from Saline Valley, Panamint Valley, and Death Valley, including Theft of Fire, collected in 1935.)
* Zigmond, Maurice. 1980. "Kawaiisu Mythology: An Oral Tradition of South-Central California". Ballena Press Anthropological Papers No. 18. Menlo Park, California. (Five Panamint myths, including Theft of Fire, collected from Panamint George, Andy Shoshone, and Johnnie Shoshone in the 1930s, pp. 221-236.)
Wikimedia Foundation.
2010.
Look at other dictionaries:
Shoshone people — Shoshone redirects here. For other uses, see Shoshone (disambiguation). Shoshone Shoshone beaded moccasins, Wyoming, ca. 1900 … Wikipedia
Northern Paiute traditional narratives — include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Northern Paiute people of the Great Basin deserts of western Nevada, eastern California, and southeastern Oregon. Northern Paiute oral literature is similar to that of the group s … Wikipedia
Coast Miwok traditional narratives — include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Coast Miwok people of the central California coast immediately north of San Francisco Bay. Coast Miwok oral literature shares many characteristics of central California narratives … Wikipedia
Shoshone — The Shoshone (Audio IPA|shoshone1.ogg| [ʃoʊˈʃoʊni] or Audio IPA|shoshone2.ogg| [ʃəˈʃoʊni] ) are a Native American tribe with three large divisions: the Northern, the Western and the Eastern. The Northern Shoshone are concentrated in eastern Idaho … Wikipedia
Mono traditional narratives — include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Mono people, including the Owens Valley Paiute east of the Sierra Nevada and the Monache on that range s western slope, in California. An interesting contrast exists in Mono oral… … Wikipedia
Mohave traditional narratives — include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Mohave people on the lower Colorado River in southeastern California, western Arizona, and southern Nevada. Mohave oral literature has its closest links with the traditional… … Wikipedia
Chemehuevi traditional narratives — include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Chemehuevi people of the Mojave Desert and Colorado River of southeastern California and western Arizona. Chemehuevi oral literature is known primarily through the writings of… … Wikipedia
Maidu traditional narratives — include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Maidu, Konkow, and Nisenan people of eastern Sacramento Valley and foothills in northeastern California. Maidu oral literature aligned the Maidu closely with their central… … Wikipedia
Ohlone traditional narratives — include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Ohlone (Costanoan) people of the central California coast. Ohlone oral literature formed part of the general cultural pattern of central California. See also: Traditional… … Wikipedia
Chumash traditional narratives — include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Chumash people of southern California s Transverse Range, Santa Barbara Ventura coast, and Channel Islands. Early analysts expected Chumash oral literature to conform to the… … Wikipedia
