Wappo traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and
oral histories
Oral history is the collection and study of historical information from
people, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews. These interviews are conducted with people who pa ...
preserved by the
Wappo
The Wappo (endonym: ''Micewal'') are an Indigenous people of northern California. Their traditional homelands are in Napa Valley, the south shore of Clear Lake, Alexander Valley, and Russian River valley. They are distantly related to the Yu ...
people of the
North Coast Ranges
The Coast Ranges of California span from Del Norte or Humboldt County, California, south to Santa Barbara County. The other three coastal California mountain ranges are the Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges and the Klamath Mountains.
Phy ...
of northeastern
California
California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...
.
Wappo oral literature was classed with that of central California, but it also showed influences from the
Pacific Northwest
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region.
See also
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Traditional narratives (Native California)
The traditional narratives of Native Indigenous Californians are the folklore and mythology of the native people of California. In California, most of the native peoples can be categorized into three large groups, Penutian, Hokan and Uto-Aztec ...
.)
Sources for Wappo narratives
* Kroeber, Henriette R. 1908. "Wappo Myths". ''Journal of American Folklore'' 21:321-323.
* Loeb, Edwin M. 1932. "The Western Kuksu Cult". ''University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology'' 33:1-137. Berkeley. (Note on Wappo mythology, pp. 107–108.)
* Powers, Stephen. 1877. ''Tribes of California''. Contributions to North American Ethnology, vol. 3. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. Reprinted with an introduction by Robert F. Heizer in 1976, University of California Press, Berkeley. (Two narratives, pp. 200–202.)
* Radin, Paul. 1924. "Wappo Texts: First Series". ''University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology'' 19:1-147. Berkeley. (Myths, including Bear and Fawns, collected from Jim Tripo and Joe McCloud in 1918, pp. 45–147.)
* Radin, Paul. 1929. "A Grammar of the Wappo Language". ''University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology'' 27:1-194. Berkeley. (One myth, pp. 159–160.)
* Sawyer, Jesse O., Jr., and Laura Fish. 1977. "Bear Woman and Her Children (Wappo)". In ''Northern Californian Texts'', edited by Victor Golla and Shirley Silver, pp. 105–113. International Journal of American Linguistics Native American Texts Series No. 2(2). University of Chicago Press.
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