Lake Miwok traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the

Lake Miwok The Lake Miwok are a branch of the Miwok, a Native American people of Northern California. The Lake Miwok lived in the Clear Lake basin of what is now called Lake County. Culture The Lake Miwok spoke their own Lake language in the Utian li ...

people of Clear Lake in the North Coast Range of northwestern California. Lake Miwok oral literature shows similarities to that of the

Pomo The Pomo are an Indigenous people of California. Historical Pomo territory in Northern California was large, bordered by the Pacific Coast to the west, extending inland to Clear Lake, and mainly between Cleone and Duncans Point. One small ...

and other neighboring groups in the North Coast region.

Online examples of Lake Miwok narratives

"The Dawn of the World"
by C. Hart Merriam (1910)

Sources for Lake Miwok narratives

* Callaghan, Catherine A. 1978. "Fire, Flood, and Creation (Lake Miwok". In ''Coyote Stories'', edited by William Bright, pp. 62-86. International Journal of American Linguistics Native American Texts Series No. 1. University of Chicago Press. (Narrated by James Knight in 1958.) * Freeland, Lucy S. 1947. "Western Miwok Texts with Linguistic Sketch". ''International Journal of American Linguistics'' 13:31-46. (One myth collected from Maggie Johnson.) * Gifford, Edward Winslow, and Gwendoline Harris Block. 1930. ''California Indian Nights''. Arthur H. Clark, Glendale, California. (Five previously published narratives, pp. 99-100, 121-124, 145-149, 154-156, 274-278.) * Loeb, Edwin M. 1932. "The Western Kuksu Cult". ''University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology'' 33:1-137. Berkeley. (Brief note on mythology, p. 119.) * Luthin, Herbert W. 2002. ''Surviving through the Days: A California Indian Reader''. University of California Press, Berkeley. (Orpheus myth collected in 1980 from James Knight by Catherine Callaghan, pp. 334-342.) * Merriam, C. Hart. 1910. ''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.) {{Traditional Narratives (California groups) Lake Miwok Traditional narratives (Native California)