Western Shoshone traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the

Western Shoshone Western Shoshone comprise several Shoshone tribes that are indigenous to the Great Basin and have lands identified in the Treaty of Ruby Valley 1863. They resided in Idaho, Nevada, California, and Utah. The tribes are very closely related cultur ...

people of eastern California and western Nevada. Western Shoshone oral literature shares many of its narratives with the Western Shoshone's Numic kinsmen in the Great Basin, the

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, Northern Paiute, Southern Paiute, and

Kawaiisu The Kawaiisu (pronounced: ″ka-wai-ah-soo″) are a Native Californian ethnic group in the United States who live in the Tehachapi Valley and to the north across the Tehachapi Pass in the southern Sierra Nevada, toward Lake Isabella and Walker P ...

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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 Western Shoshone Narratives

* Steward, Julian H. 1936. "Myths of the Owens Valley Paiute". ''University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology'' 34:355-440. Berkeley. (Four Lone Pine Shoshone myths including Theft of Fire, pp. 434-436.) * Steward, Julian H. 1943. "Some Western Shoshoni Myths". ''Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin'' 136:249-299. Washington, D.C. (Myths from Saline Valley, Panamint Valley, and Death Valley, including Theft of Fire, collected in 1935.) * Zigmond, Maurice. 1980. ''Kawaiisu Mythology: An Oral Tradition of South-Central California''. Ballena Press Anthropological Papers No. 18. Menlo Park, California. (Five Panamint myths, including Theft of Fire, collected from Panamint George, Andy Shoshone, and Johnnie Shoshone in the 1930s, pp. 221-236.) {{Populations of Native California Groups Western Shoshone Traditional narratives (Native California)