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Salinan traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Salinan people of the central California coast. Salinan oral literature, as documented primarily by J. Alden Mason , shows its closest links with that of other central California groups, such as the Yokuts .(
The 56 acres (23 ha) Wagon Caves rock formation about 18 miles (29 km) northwest of present-day Jolon is an archeological site that was used by the Salinan Antonianos subtribe [3] [4] who researchers believe occupied at least two villages in the area, an older site dating to approximately 450 A.D. and a later, protohistoric site with dates ...
"It is beyond words for us, the highest honor," said Tom Little Bear Nason, chairman of the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County. "The land is the most important thing to us. It is our homeland, the creation story of our lives. We are so elated and grateful."
An elaborate Earth-Maker Story of Creation is a myth that comes from the Native Americans of California, also called the "Story of Creation."This myth describes Earth-maker creating day and night, land, water, and all living things.
The Salinan people — a historic and present day tribe of indigenous peoples of California. A tribe affected by the Spanish and Mexican California Mission Indians system in Alta California . Their pre-contact homelands were within present day Monterey County and northern San Luis Obispo County .
The Navajo, who were neighbors of the Hopi in the southwest, borrow elements of the Pueblo people’s emergence myths in their creation stories. [6] The Navajo creation story has parallels to the Biblical book of Genesis. The early Abrahamic concept of the world is similar to the Navajo concept of the world. This world is one where the earth is ...
The specific myths, legends, tales, and histories of the Bay Miwok are not well documented. C. Hart Merriam published a creation story, The Birth of Wek-Wek and the Creation of Man, centered on Mt. Diablo, that was told by a Hool-poom'-ne Miwok, perhaps a descendant of the Julpun Bay Miwok of Marsh Creek, eastern Contra Costa County.
Ginn and Company, Boston. (Children's story incorporating some traditional narratives.) Meigs, Peveril, III. 1971. "Creation Myth and Other Recollections of the Nijí Mishkwish". Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 7(1):9-13. (Brief version of the creation myth narrated by Calistra Tenjil in 1929, p. 12.) Spier, Leslie. 1923.