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

Achomawi

The Achomawi are one of eleven bands of the Pit River tribe of Native Americans who lived in northeastern California, USA....

 people of the Pit River

Pit River

The Pit River is a major river draining from northeastern California into the state's Central Valley. The Pit, the Klamath and the Columbia are the only three rivers in the U.S...

 basin of Northeastern California.

Achomawi oral literature reflects the group's position at the junction of cultural influences from central California, the Great Basin, the Plateau, and the Northwest Coast regions of aboriginal North America.

Achomawi narratives

• Angulo, Jaime de, and Lucy S. Freeland. 1931. "Two Achumawi Tales". Journal of American Folklore 44:125-136. (Collected from Mary Martin.)
• Curtis, Edward S. 1907-1930. The North American Indian. 20 vols. Plimpton Press, Norwood, Massachusetts. (Creation myth collected from Henry Wool, vol. 13, pp. 206-210.)
• Dixon, Roland B. 1905. "The Mythology of the Shasta-Achomawi". American Anthropologist 7:607-612. (Comparative notes.)
• Dixon, Roland B. 1908. "Achomawi and Atsugewi Tales". Journal of American Folklore 21:159-177. (Twelve myths collected in 1900 and 1903.)
• Dixon, Roland B. 1909. "Achomawi Myths". Journal of American Folklore 22:283-287. (Five myths collected by Jeremiah Curtin
  Jeremiah Curtin
  Jeremiah Curtin was an American translator and folklorist.-Life:Born in Detroit, Michigan, Curtin spent his early life in Milwaukee County and later graduated from Harvard College in 1863. In 1864 he went to Russia, where he worked as both a translator and for the U.S. legation...
  
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• Gifford, Edward Winslow, and Gwendoline Harris Block. 1930. California Indian Nights. Arthur H. Clark, Glendale, California. (Four previously published narratives, pp. 84-85, 134, 158, 285)
• Judson, Katharine Berry. 1912. Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest. A. C. McClurg, Chicago. (A version of the creation myth, p. 16)
• Kroeber, A. L. 1925. Handbook of the Indians of California. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 78. Washington, D.C. (Comparative comments on myths, p. 315)
• Margolin, Malcolm. 1993. The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs, and Reminiscences. First edition 1981. Heyday Books, Berkeley, California. (One myth from Curtin, pp. 118-119.)
• Olmsted, David L. 1977. "Loon, Coyote, and Fox (Ajumawi)". In Northern Californian Texts, edited by Victor Golla and Shirley Silver, pp. 66-70. International Journal of American Linguistics Native American Texts Series No. 2(2). University of Chicago Press.
• 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. 272-273)

External links

• "Achomawi and Atsugewi Tales" by Roland B. Dixon (1908)
• "Achomawi Myths" by Roland B. Dixon (1909)
• Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Katharine Berry Judson (1912)
• The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis
  Edward S. Curtis
  Edward Sheriff Curtis was a photographer of the American West and of Native American peoples.-Early life:...
  
  (1924)