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Coyote Dances With the Prairie Dogs, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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17. Coyote Dances With the Prairie Dogs as told by Sam Kenoi
  
Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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Ethnological Note 1
In the songs of the war dance held after a battle the names of conspicuously brave men were mentioned. These men then danced to songs which had reference to their war deeds.
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Ethnological Note 2
The Chiricahua war dance was essentially a dramatization of the battle by those who had participated in it.
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