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Wappo traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the
Wappo The Wappo (endonym: ''Micewal'') are an indigenous people of northern California. Their traditional homelands are in Napa Valley, the south shore of Clear Lake, Alexander Valley, and Russian River valley. They are distantly related to the Yuki ...
people of the North Coast Ranges of northeastern
California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...
. Wappo oral literature was classed with that of central California, but it also showed influences from the
Pacific Northwest The Pacific Northwest (sometimes Cascadia, or simply abbreviated as PNW) is a geographic region in western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east. Though ...
region.


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Traditional narratives (Native California) The traditional narratives of Native California are the folklore and mythology of the native people of California. For many historic nations of California, there is only a fragmentary record of their traditions. Spanish missions in California f ...
.)


Sources for Wappo narratives

* Kroeber, Henriette R. 1908. "Wappo Myths". ''Journal of American Folklore'' 21:321-323. * Loeb, Edwin M. 1932. "The Western Kuksu Cult". ''University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology'' 33:1-137. Berkeley. (Note on Wappo mythology, pp. 107–108.) * 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. (Two narratives, pp. 200–202.) * Radin, Paul. 1924. "Wappo Texts: First Series". ''University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology'' 19:1-147. Berkeley. (Myths, including Bear and Fawns, collected from Jim Tripo and Joe McCloud in 1918, pp. 45–147.) * Radin, Paul. 1929. "A Grammar of the Wappo Language". ''University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology'' 27:1-194. Berkeley. (One myth, pp. 159–160.) * Sawyer, Jesse O., Jr., and Laura Fish. 1977. "Bear Woman and Her Children (Wappo)". In ''Northern Californian Texts'', edited by Victor Golla and Shirley Silver, pp. 105–113. International Journal of American Linguistics Native American Texts Series No. 2(2). University of Chicago Press. {{Traditional Narratives (California groups) Traditional narrative Traditional narratives (Native California)