Pitch Woman and Other Stories

The Oral Traditions of Coquelle Thompson, Upper Coquille Athabaskan Indian

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-04-01
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt485 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNative Literatures of the Americas and Indigenous World Literatures
Antal sidor277
FörlagUniversity of Nebraska Press
ISBN9780803244948

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William R. Seaburg is a professor of interdisciplinary arts and sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell. He is the editor and annotator of The Nehalem Tillamook: An Ethnography by Elizabeth D. Jacobs, and the coauthor of Coquelle Thompson, Athabaskan Witness: A Cultural Biography. Elizabeth D. Jacobs (1903–83) was mentored in anthropology by her husband, the noted anthropologist Melville Jacobs.

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

"This book is a gift to anthropology, linguistics, and folklore . . . . A chapter in which Seaburg isolates and analyzes four particular tales is valuable and rich. . . . [T]his important work chronicles a person who represents a largely undocumented and little-known Native American group."—CHOICE "Seaburg employs an easy style that avoids heavy scholarly jargon while using linguistic terms appropriately. . . . This book will become an essential volume and reference work to add to any library, personal or public, of Northwest Coast Indigenous anthropology or ethnohistory. Tribal scholars will appreciate its references to other similar oral histories throughout Oregon, Washington, and California. Because the oral histories are all presented in English, there will be a wide audience of folklorists, ethno-poetics, and scholars of other disciplines. Linguists may seek the book, as there are rare uses of Coquille language."—Oregon Historical Quarterly"A substantial corpus of well-told narratives from the Oregon coast, a region from which few such things have appeared in print, is self-recommending to anyone concerned with native literatures of the Northwest. But this well-presented collection should repay the attention of other readers as well."—Paul D. Kroeber, Journal of Folklore Research "Though referencing many technical elements of the oral tradition, Pitch Woman and Other Stories is accessible to all audiences. Seaburg is to be applauded for this sensitive and exemplary rendering of oral narratives in this written text. The process revealed is one of honesty and of care for the 'voices' of Thompson, as well as of Jacobs and even of himself."—Pacific Northwest Quarterly