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The myths of creation after an epic flood or ocean, the Earth Diver, and the Coyote as ancestor and trickster compare to Central and Northern California mythemes of Yokuts mythology, Ohlone mythology and Pomo mythology. The myths of "First People" dying out to be replaced with the Miwok people is a "deeply impressed conception" shared by ...
The Miwok creation story and narratives tend to be similar to those of other natives of Northern California. Miwok had totem animals, identified with one of two moieties, which were in turn associated respectively with land and water. These totem animals were not thought of as literal ancestors of humans, but rather as predecessors.
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.
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, including that of their linguistic kinsmen the Lake , Plains ...
The Miwok are segregated into three distinct groups: the Coast Miwok, the Lake Miwok, and the Plains and Sierra Miwok (Interior) which make up the majority of the overall population. The Miwok territory is defined by the Maidu to their right, the Yokuts to the left, and the Washoe and Mono behind them.
Boys will undergo an official initiation into the tribe by participating in ceremonies that recount the tribes' mysteries and myths. [30] [31] See also: Earth-maker myth; Kuksu – a religion in Northern California practiced by members within several Indigenous peoples of California. Miwok mythology – a North American tribe in Northern ...
Indian Myths of South Central California by Alfred L. Kroeber (1907) The Dawn of the World by C. Hart Merriam (1910) Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Katharine Berry Judson (1912) Miwok Myths by Edward W. Gifford (1917) The Lore and the Lure of the Yosemite by Herbert Earl Wilson (1922) The North American Indian by ...
The Dawn of the World: Myths and Weird Tales Told by the Mewan Indians of California. Arthur H. Clark, Cleveland, Ohio. Reprinted as The Dawn of the World: Myths and Tales of the Miwok Indians of California, in 1993 with an introduction by Lowell J. Bean, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln. (Several narratives.)