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Miwok Oral Literature
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Texts
Miwok Myths — Edward Winslow GiffordEdward Winslow Gifford's 1917 collection of fourteen Central Sierra Miwok myths from Tuolumne County, California, told by Thomas Williams and William Fuller, with his own abstracts.The Dawn of the World — C. Hart MerriamC. Hart Merriam's 1910 collection of Mewan (Miwok) myths and present-day beliefs from central California, in two parts — ancient creation-cycle myths and living beliefs about animals, ghosts, and natural phenomena.