The Apache and the Comanche, Chiricahua Apache Text ::

The Apache and the Comanche, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

[oral narrative]

32.1.

They were on the war path.

32.2.

On the other side of this windbreak the Comanche were crawling toward them.

32.3.

Then [one of the Apaches] was taking the insides out of a rabbit.

32.4.

Then [the chief] laughed.

Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer

Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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They were on the war path.

(32.1)[1]
Naadaabaaná'a.
Tł'éé'go beiłkaaná'a.
Gozáͅáͅyégo náádaa'neesndilná'a.
Chaółhéélgo, koͅoͅdeedaa'deesjéná'a.
Koͅoͅnaaheestáͅná'a.
Tł'éé'go, gah naadaistseeí bich'íí' hadaayindííłgo naaheestáͅná'a.

They were on the war path.
They stopped for the night.
They had built a small windbreak.
When darkness had fallen, they had built a fire.
They were sitting about the fire.
It being night, they were sitting about pulling the intestines out of the rabbits they had killed.

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(32.1) Linguistic Notes

tł'éé'go beiłkaaná'a 'they stopped for the night'. Literally: 'being night, day was coming with them, it is said'. tł'éé'go beiłkaa > bee- 'with them' and hiłkaa 'day is dawning' [see linguistic note to Chiricahua text 7.1].

University of Virginia Library

They were on the war path.