Origin of Death

[hzenk at PDX.EDU]

> So, how is to be explained the virtual identity between the Santiam and the
> Upper Coquille myths?
>

The oral literatures of these groups are not well enough recorded to say
anything for sure.  As I recall though, Jacobs also got a version of the same
myth from the Santiam speaker in Santiam.  One thing to consider also is the
"reservation mixed culture" (as one of the old-time ethnographers termed it)
both of Siletz Reservation (where Jacobs's U Coquille speaker spent most of his
life) and Grand Ronde Reservation (where his Santiam speaker spent all of his
life).  Stories certainly did circulate within the reservation communities--in
the early days, usually in Chinuk Wawa. Jacobs had a tendency to overlook the
reservations, attributing anything spoken by a Santiam speaker to Santiam
culture, an Upper Coquille speaker to U Coquille culture, etc.  Henry Z.

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