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    ACHOMAWI AND ATSUGEWI MYTHS and Legends - 17 American Indian Myths: Native American Myths and Legends
    ACHOMAWI AND ATSUGEWI MYTHS and Legends - 17 American Indian Myths: Native American Myths and Legends
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    ACHOMAWI AND ATSUGEWI MYTHS and Legends - 17 American Indian Myths: Native American Myths and Legends

    By Anon E. Mouse and Compiled by R Dixon and J Curtin

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    Ask anyone anywhere in the world to name an American Indian tribe and the names “Apache” or “Cheyenne” immediately come to mind. We have Hollywood to thanks for this. But ask where in the world the Achomawi or the Atsugewi can be found and you will most likely be given blank stares – unless of course if you are a resident of northern California, northern Nevada or maybe Southern Oregon. Both tribes form part of the Shastan stock, of which the Shasta are perhaps the best-known members.

    In this volume you will find 17 of their tales. Stories like The Search For Fire, The Creation Myth, The Making Of Daylight, Loon Woman, Hawk Man, Pine Marten And The Bead Sisters and more. So download a copy and settle down in a comfy armchair and explore the folklore, myths and legends of these relatively unknown American Indian tribes.

    THE myths and tales in this volume were secured during the summers of 1900 and 1903 by Roland B. Dixon, while engaged in work among the tribes of northeastern California for the Huntington Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History. Some were secured in text, but nearly half were obtained only in brief form in English.

    The last myths were gathered by Jeremiah Curtain from the Atsugewi, or Hat Creek Indians, the remainder from the Achomawi or Pit River tribe.

    10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to Charities.

    TAGS: Folklore, fairy, tales, myths, legends, children’s, stories, bedtime, fables, American Indian, native American, first people, Achomawi, Atsugewi,  Creation Myth, Making Of Daylight, Hawk Man, Search For Fire, Loon Woman, Lost Brother, Bluejay, Lizard, Grizzly-Bear, Silver Fox, Coyote, Mole And The Sun, Coyote and the Cloud, Flint Man, Pine Marten, Marry, Bead Sisters, Kangaroo Rat, Races With Coyote, Buzzard Brothers, Wood Worm, House Of Silver-Fox, Fish Hawk, Daughter
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateJan 29, 2018
    ISBN9788827560419
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      ACHOMAWI AND ATSUGEWI MYTHS and Legends - 17 American Indian Myths - Anon E. Mouse

      ACHOMAWI & ATSUGEWI MYTHS and Legends

      Compiled By

      Roland B. Dixon

      .

      Journal of American Folk-Lore

      Vol. XXI, No. 81, pp. 159-77

      [1908]

      with

      ACHOMAWI MYTHS

      Collected By

      Jeremiah Curtin

      Edited By Roland B. Dixon

      Journal Of American Folk-Lore

      Vol. XXII, No. 85, pp. 283-7

      [1909]

      Resurrected By

      ABELA PUBLISHING

      LONDON

      [2018]

      ACHOMAWI AND ATSUGEWI MYTHS and TALES

      Typographical arrangement of this edition

      © Abela Publishing 2018

      This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) except as permitted by law without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Abela Publishing,

      London

      United Kingdom

      2018

      ISBN-13: 978-8-827560-41-9

      email

      Books@AbelaPublishing.com

      Website

      www.AbelaPublishing.com

      Acknowledgements

      The Publisher acknowledges the work that

      Roland B. Dixon and Jeremiah Curtain

      did in compiling this unique  collection of

      Achomawi and Atsugewi Tales

      in a time well before any electronic media was in use.

      * * * * * * *

      10% of the profit from the sale from this book

      will be donated to Charities

      Contents

      Introduction

      Achomawi And Atsugewi Myths & Tales

      1. Creation Myth (Achomawi).

      2. The Making Of Daylight (Achomawi).

      3. Hawk-Man (Achomawi).

      4. Search For Fire (Achomawi).

      5. Loon-Woman (Achomawi).

      6. The Lost Brother (Achomawi).

      7. Bluejay And Lizard And The Grizzly-Bears (Achomawi).

      8. Silver-Fox And Coyote (Achomawi).

      9. The Mole And The Sun (Achomawi).

      10. Coyote And Cloud (Achomawi).

      11. Creation Myth (Atsugewi).

      12. Flint-Man, The Search For Fire And Loon Woman (Atsugewi).

      Achomawi Myths

      1. Pine-Marten Marries The Bead Sisters

      2. Kangaroo-Rat Races With Coyote And Others

      3. The Buzzard Brothers And Wood-Worm

      4. The House Of Silver-Fox

      5. Fish-Hawk And His Daughter

      Introduction

      BY ROLAND B. DIXON.

      THE following myths were secured during the summers of 1900 and 1903, while engaged in work among the tribes of North Eastern California for the Huntington Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History. Some were secured in text, but nearly half were obtained only in brief form in English. The last myths are from the Atsugewi or Hat Creek Indians, the remainder from the Achomawi or Pit River tribe. Both tribes form part of the Shastan stock, of which the Shasta are perhaps the best-known members. My chief informants were, among the former Charley Snook, and among the latter Charley Green and Old Wool.

      1.

      CREATION MYTH (ACHOMAWI).

      In the beginning all was water. In all directions the sky was clear and unobstructed. A cloud formed in the sky, grew lumpy, and turned into Coyote. Then a fog arose, grew lumpy, and became Silver-Fox. They became persons. Then they thought. They thought a canoe, and they said, Let us stay here, let us make it our home. Then they floated about, for many years they floated; and the canoe became old and mossy, and they grew weary of it.

      Do you go and lie down, said Silver-Fox to Coyote, and he did so. While he slept, Silver-Fox combed his hair, and the combings he saved. When there was much of them, he rolled them in his hands, stretched them out, and flattened them between his hands. When he had done this, he laid them upon the water and spread them out, till they covered all the surface of the water. Then he thought, There should be a tree, and it was there. And he did the same way with shrubs and with rocks, and weighted the film down with stones, so that the film did not wave and rise in ripples as it floated in the wind. And thus he made it, that it was just right, this that was to be the world. And then the canoe floated gently up to the edge, and it was the world. Then he cried to Coyote, Wake up! We are going to sink! And Coyote woke, and looked up; and over his head, as he lay, hung cherries and plums; and from the surface of the world

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