Patwin traditional narratives

Patwin traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Patwin people of the southwestern Sacramento Valley, California.

Patwin oral literature is most similar to that of other central California groups. Strong external influences from other regions are not evident. (See also Traditional narratives (Native California).)

On-Line Examples of Patwin Narratives

• "The California Indians" by Stephen Powers (1874)

• Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Katharine Berry Judson (1912

Sources for Patwin Narratives

• Judson, Katharine Berry. 1912. Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest. A. C. McClurg, Chicago. (Two myths, pp. 151-153.)

• Kroeber, A. L. 1925. Handbook of the Indians of California. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 78. Washington, D.C. (Brief notes, pp. 362, 385-386.)

• Kroeber, A. L. 1932. "The Patwin and their Neighbors". University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 29:253-423. Berkeley. (Patwin narratives, including Earth Diver, pp. 300-308.)

• Latta, Frank F. 1936. California Indian Folklore. F. F. Latta, Shafter, California. (Includes one Patwin myth.)

• Loeb, Edwin M. 1933. "The Eastern Kuksu Cult". University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 33:139-232. Berkeley. (Brief note on Long Valley Patwin mythology, p. 223.)

• 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. (Three narratives, including Earth Diver, pp. 226-227.)

• Whistler, Kenneth W. 1978. "Mink, Bullethawk and Coyote". In Coyote Stories, edited by William Bright, pp. 51-61. International Journal of American Linguistics Native American Texts Series No. 1. University of Chicago Press. (Narrated by Nora Lowell to Elizabeth Bright in 1951.)

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