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The Creation, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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6. The Creation as told by Lawrence Mithlo

6.1.

Now he had killed all of those different ones on earth who killed with their eyes.

6.2.

He made two mud [figures] just like men.

6.3.

Then, [to one] man and woman:

6.4.

Then he set down [several things] for them.

6.5.

Then Child of the Water [and] Killer of Enemies, quarrelled with each other.

6.6.

A little later Child of the Water chose the bow and arrow for the Indians.

6.7.

Then Killer of Enemies picked up the gun that remained without saying anything.

6.8.

And then he put down two mountains for them.

6.9.

Then Killer of Enemies chose for the white man that mountain which [Child of theWater] had left.

6.10.

So the Indian live on those wild growing things.

6.11.

"The White Men, working, will live on cultivated plants."

6.12.

Then he spoke thus to the white man:

Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer

Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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The Creation, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

Hoijer, Harry

University of Chicago Press

Chicago

1938