Yuman

The Yuman-speaking peoples of the lower Colorado River, southern California and Baja California each told their own stories. The Mohave knew a creator, Matavilya, who gave the people their clans. His younger brother Mastamho gave them the river and taught them to plant, and young Mohave took Datura as a sacrament when they came of age. For the Kumeyaay the world was first all salt water and tule; the brothers Tuchaipa and Yokomatis made it, and Tuchaipa raised the heavens by blowing tobacco smoke three times.

Kumeyaay sacred mountains such as Kuuchamaa were hubs of spiritual power, and Coyote was the trickster who changed the world with clever and mischievous deeds. Among the Cochimí, shamans wore capes of human hair on ceremonial occasions.