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Coyote and the Money Tree, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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11. Coyote and the Money Tree as told by Sam Kenoi

11.1.

Coyote was walking [along] a road.

11.2.

Then he put several [silver] dollars upon the tree that was standing there.

11.3.

Then two white men came along the road driving a pack [train].

11.4.

11.5.

The white men spoke thus to him:

11.6.

Then he spoke thus:

11.7.

Then the white men spoke thus to him:

11.8.

Then Coyote spoke thus to them:

11.9.

Then they gave him all of that with which they had been travelling.

11.10.

Then Coyote spoke thus to them:

11.11.

And now he began to drive [the pack train] away from them.

11.12.

Then the white men got up.

11.13.

But he had long ago driven [the pack train] far away.

11.14.

Now those white men were coming to that place.

11.15.

Coyote spoke thus to them:

Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer

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Coyote and the Money Tree, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

Hoijer, Harry

University of Chicago Press

Chicago

1938