On the Ethnolinguistic Identity of the Napa Tribe: The Implications of Chief Constancio Occaye's Nar...

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" On the Ethnolinguistic Identity of the Napa Tribe: The Implications of Chief Constancio Occaye's Narratives as Recorded by Lorenzo G. Yates "
Johnson, John R

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	940605
Doc. No	:	LA3k52g07t
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Johnson, John R
Title & Author	:	On the Ethnolinguistic Identity of the Napa Tribe: The Implications of Chief Constancio Occaye's Narratives as Recorded by Lorenzo G. Yates [Article]\ Johnson, John R
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Volume/ Issue Number	:	26/2
Date	:	2006
Abstract	:	About 1876, Lorenzo G. Yates interviewed Constancio Occaye, described as the last ''Chief of the Napas,'' and recorded several items of folklore from his tribe. Yates included Constancio's recollections about the use of charmstones in his classic article on that subject, but he does not appear to have ever published Constancio's account of Napa oral traditions regarding the Land of the Dead, creation, and the acquisition of fire. Anthropologists, although not without some uncertainty, have long considered the Napa tribe to have been of Southern Patwin affiliation. The narratives themselves, and the native words recorded parenthetically by Yates, appear to be mostly of Coast Miwok derivation, which suggests that a reconsideration of Napa ethnolinguistic identity is in order.