Victoria Howard | |
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Native name | Wishikin |
Born | Victoria Wacheno September 1865 Grand Ronde Reservation, Oregon |
Died | September 26, 1930 Oregon City, Oregon | (aged 65)
Occupation | storyteller |
Language | English, Upper Chinook language, Molala language |
Nationality | Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, American (after 1924) |
Genre | Native American studies |
Spouse | Eustace Howard, West Linn |
Parents | Sarah Quiaquaty Wishikin, William Wishikin |
Victoria Howard, also Victoria (Wishikin) Wacheno Howard (c. 1865–1930), was a Clackamas Chinook storyteller from Oregon, USA. She was a Molala, Clackamas, and Tualatin citizen of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon.
Howard's songs and stories were dictated, transcribed, and published as Clackamas Chinook Texts.[1] They were used as classroom reading texts for Indigenous school children and are now regarded as a rich record of the Indigenous northwest Oregon storytelling and performance art.[2]