Search Results for Miwok people

... origin myths ethnopoetics coyote stories Native American oral narrative Miwok people 22 Cowell, Naming the World . 23 Sarris, Keeping Slug Woman Alive , 21, 23, 47. 24 Gifford and Block, Californian Indian Nights , 16–17. 25 See Nevin, introduction, 128 . Works...

... texts. In “A Central Sierra Miwok Origins Story: The Theft of the Sun,” Andrew Cowell turns our attention to a Sierra Miwok creation story, “Coyote Steals the Sun.” Examining the story in the original language, Cowell’s line-by-line translation functions as a centralizing methodology in his...