Victoria Howard
Victoria Howard | |
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Howard in 1919 | |
| Native name | Wishikin |
| Born | Victoria Wacheno September 1865 Grand Ronde Reservation, Oregon |
| Died | September 26, 1930 (aged 65) Oregon City, Oregon |
| 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. 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.