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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.
The Maidu are a Native American people of northern California. They reside in the central Sierra Nevada , in the watershed area of the Feather and American Rivers and in Humbug Valley. In Maiduan languages , maidu means "person".
The Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California are a federally recognized Native American tribe based in northeastern California, south of Lassen Peak. They historically have spoken the Konkow language, also known as Northeastern Maidu. They are a federally recognized Maidu tribe headquartered in Oroville [2] in Butte County.
In many of these stories he is a major sacred character with divine creative powers; in others he is a malevolent and often comical trickster. In some stories he combines both roles. 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.
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.
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.
For centuries, the Maidu cultural hub of Kótasi, meaning "on the snowline," thrived in the area that is now Greenville, said Trina Cunningham, executive director of the Maidu Summit Consortium, a ...
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.