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The Killing of the Prairie Dogs, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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5. The Killing of the Prairie Dogs as told by Lawrence Mithlo

5.1.

Now Child of the Water spoke thus to his mother:

5.2.

The Prairie Dogs cannot kill one close [to them] with their eyes.

5.3.

[Child of the Water] lay hidden from him.

5.4.

Then a Gray Lizard came to him.

5.5.

5.6.

Then the Gray Lizard spoke thus to him:

5.7.

Then [Child of the Water] did just exactly so.

5.8.

He was carrying [a bag of] salt.

5.9.

[The salt] exploded toward them.

5.10.

Then, when he had finished, he returned to his mother.

Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer

Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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The Killing of the Prairie Dogs, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

Hoijer, Harry

University of Chicago Press

Chicago

1938