Does anybody have any suggestions for books containing oral histories/stories of tribal societies?

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chivestheconquerer

Check out Queequeg′s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature. The author essentially argues that the oral histories in American Indian societies were often aided by a kind of writing that served as mnemonic devices to accompany oral history. This could take the form of a series of drawings, sea shell pattern Wampum belts, etc. It definitely gave me an appreciation for the complexity of American Indian tribal historiography.

M-elephant

also try this at r/askanthropology

fancyfreecb

Uqalurait: an Oral History of Nunavut offers accounts from Inuit people in Northern Canada. Very interesting read.

Also Seanchaidh na Coille / The Memory-keeper of the Forest by Michael Newton is about Scottish Gaelic perspectives in Canadian history, as recorded orally in the song tradition.