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The Maidu Indian Myths and Stories of Hanc'ibyjim. Heyday Books, Berkeley, California. (New translations of narratives originally published by Dixon in 1912.) Spencer, D. L. 1908. "Notes on the Maidu Indians of Butte County, California". Journal of American Folklore 21:242-245. (Includes one narrative.) Swann, Brian. 1994.
An example is a Maidu myth that says that at the beginning of time, a primal being called Earth Maker is floating on the infinite waters, when Coyote calls out to him. Together they sing to create the world. After it is completed, and Earth Maker has created the people, Coyote vows to spoil the world and introduce evil to it.
The Maidu spoke a language that some linguists believe was related to the Penutian family. While all Maidu spoke a form of this language, the grammar, syntax, and vocabulary differed sufficiently that Maidu separated by large distances or by geographic features that discouraged travel might speak dialects that were nearly mutually unintelligible.
His book of translated Maidu stories, The Maidu Indian Myths and Stories of Hánc'ibyjim, was published by Heydey Books in 1991. He died of complications from pneumonia on January 20, 2011. [ 2 ] He was the father of screenwriter Michael Shipley .
Maidu Myths (1902) The Chimariko Indians and Language (1910) Maidu Texts (1912) Oceanic Mythology (myths of the Indonesian, Oceanian, Australian region, published in 1916) Racial History of Man (1923)
The name Nisenan derives from the ablative plural pronoun nisena·n,. [6]The Nisenan have been called the Southern Maidu and Valley Maidu. While the term Maidu is still used widely, Maidu is an over-simplification of a very complex division of smaller groups or bands of Native Americans.
Konkow Kuksu ceremony. Kuksu was a religion in Northern California practiced by members within several Indigenous peoples of California before and during contact with the arriving European settlers.
Curtis, Edward S. 1907–1930. The North American Indian. 20 vols. Plimpton Press, Norwood, Massachusetts.(Seven Wailaki myths, including Theft of Fire, collected ...