1930: Californian Indian Nights Entertainments

Moving on to Native American storytelling traditions, here is a very important book published in 1930, thus entering the public domain on January 1 2026:

Californian Indian Nights Entertainments
by Edward Gifford and Gwendoline Harris Brooks
(illustrated with photographs)
Hathi Trust

Both Gifford and Harris worked at UC Berkeley, based at the Anthropology Museum. The book was reissued in 1990 by Bison Press with a forward by Albert Hurtado. The book is organized thematically as you can see in the screenshot below from the table of contents (partial), and it also has a lengthy introduction (80 pages) providing an overview of the Native peoples of California.