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The rich oral traditions of the Athabaskan Indians from southwestern Oregon are showcased in these pages for the first time. This volume features vivid and humorous tales of familiar Tricksters: Coyote, known for his unusual sexual prowess and escapades that often go awry; the vain and gullible Grizzly Bear; and Raccoon, often greedy and ever elusive. The collection also includes the less familiar but all-too-human stories of Pitch Woman, Little Man, the unicorn-like Hollering-Like-a-Person, and other local figures, all of which add to the wealth of Native oral literature in the Pacific Northwest. In 1935 Elizabeth D. Jacobs conducted ethnographic fieldwork with survivors of several Athabaskan cultures living on the Siletz Reservation. Her work preserves the forty-seven stories recorded here as recounted by Upper Coquille consultant Coquelle Thompson Sr., an accomplished storyteller who lived through the Rogue River Wars of 1855-56. His tribal community was evicted from its homeland and resettled with other Athabaskan groups on the Siletz Reservation, where he lived for ninety years. This volume offers a behind-the-scenes look at the collection of oral accounts, a sketch of Upper Coquille Athabaskan culture, an examination of Thompson's storytelling, and extended analyses of four stories, including "Pitch Woman." The reader is encouraged to "listen" to the stories with an ear attuned both to the storyteller himself and to the stories' own cultural context.
Contents
List of Map, Illustrations, and Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xForeword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xiAcknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvAbbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii1. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12. An Upper Coquille Athabaskan Cultural Sketch . . . . 313. Features of Style and Performance inCoquelle Thompson's Storytelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514. Analyses of Four Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Pitch Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Little Man. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76A Man Grows a Snake in a Bucket . . . . . . . . . . . 88Panther and Deer Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1025. Oral Traditional Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131The Flood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Pitch Woman (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140Pitch Woman (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Pitch Woman (4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Mean Warrior. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149Coyote and God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151Coyote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Wind Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172Rabbit's Son and the Grizzly Bears . . . . . . . . . . 179The Woman Who Married the Sea Wolf . . . . . . 185Raccoon and His Grandmother . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189Panther and the Grizzly Bears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193Coyote Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200The Wolf Person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202Coyote and Wolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205How Land Came into Being. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218A Man Followed His Wife tothe Land of the Dead (Orpheus) . . . . . . . . . . . . 221Mountain People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227Robin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228Coyote Jim Gives the Law on Gambling . . . . . . 230Coyote Gives the Law on Death. . . . . . . . . . . . . 233Frog Woman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234Raccoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235Big Head (Cannibal) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237Skunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239Snake and Money. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240Brown Bear and Grizzly Bear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245Gambler and Snake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245Little Man (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250Wren and His Grandmother. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252Coyote and His Two Daughters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255Coyote Becomes a Steelhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258Hollering-like-a-Person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259Penis and Vulva: Origin of Sex Knowledge . . . 260Crow Eats Feces, Marries a Woman . . . . . . . . . 261A Girl Is Ill with Desire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261Gray Eagle and Snowbird Gamble. . . . . . . . . . . 263Weasel and His Older Brother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263Coyote Jim and His Neighbor Crane . . . . . . . . . 266Grizzly Wants Red-HeadedWoodpecker Scalps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268Afterword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271Appendix 1. A Comparison of Jacobs's andHarrington's Text Transcription Styles . . . . . . . . . . . 275Appendix 2. A Note on Orthographyand Pronunciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283References Cited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
