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There were hundreds of small tribes of Native Californians, with diverse cultures and languages. Most Native Californian tribes were decimated by disease and the stress of their virtual enslavement by the Spanish Missionaries. Later the Americans hunted down and exterminated many of the remaining tribes without mercy. Some were completely wiped out with little trace, such as the Esselen of Big Sur. Others survived adversity and remain active today, particularly some of the tribes in the Northwest coast. However, a great volume of detailed and accurate information on their culture, mythology and religion is available. This is thanks to pioneering anthropologists at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Many of these scholars were affiliated with the University of California. General Religion of the Indians of
California Myths and Legends of California
and the Old
Southwest Northern California Indian Myths Of South Central
California. Miwok Myths The Dawn of the World Indians of the Yosemite Valley
and
Vicinity The Lore and the Lure of The
Yosemite Creation Myths of Primitive
America Maidu Texts Hupa Texts Yana Texts by Edward Sapir UCPAAE Vol. 9 No. 1, pp.
1-235. [1910] Achomawi and Atsugewi Tales and
Achomawi Myths by Roland B. Dixon
JAFL Vol. 22, no. 81, pp. 159-77 [1908] and
JAFL Vol. 23, no. 85, pp. 283-7 [1909]. Southern California Chinigchinich The Mythology of the Diegeños A Saboba Origin-Myth The Legend of Tauquitch and
Algoot The Story of the Chaup; A
Myth of the
Diegueños Mythology of the Mission
Indians Two Myths of the Mission
Indians Ceremonies and Traditions of
the
Diegueño Indians Nevada Some Western Shoshoni Myths |