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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
 17.1. 
Coyote was walking [along] a road.
 17.2. 
It was sunset.
 17.3. 
"Everyone! No one is to stay at home; all of you come here!"
 17.4. 
Then all of them, none staying at home, came to him.
 17.5. 
Then he talked to them.
 17.6. 
"So, build your fires right now! The ceremony in honor of [the victory] will last all night. The celebration will last all night."
 17.7. 
Then:
 17.8. 
Then they built the fires.
 17.9. 
Then the ceremony began.
 17.10. 
Then the Prairie Dogs sang about Coyote:
 17.11. 
Then it was late at night.
 17.12. 
Then Coyote spoke thus:
 17.13. 
Then the Prairie Dogs who were fat lined up on one side.
 17.14. 
Then Coyote spoke thus again:
 17.15. 
Then the Prairie Dogs had a very [good] ceremony.
 17.16. 
Then he went to a large mulberry tree that was standing there.
 17.17. 
"That's the way to have a good time!"
 17.18. 
Then some of the Prairie Dogs spoke thus among them[selves]:
 17.19. 
Then Coyote spoke thus:
 17.20. 
Then some of them again spoke thus among them[selves]:
 17.21. 
Then Coyote spoke thus:
 17.22. 
Then he danced around and around among them pretending to strike them again and again with the club.
 17.23. 
Then, after a while, he carried them back to the fire.
 17.24. 
"They will cook well for me."
 17.25. 
Then he lay down in the shade under a tree that was standing there.
 17.26. 
Then the Puma went away from him.
 17.27. 
He returned to where he had put the Prairie Dogs in the fire.
 17.28. 
"These are no good."
 17.29. 
Then, though he did not like them, he picked up and ate those he had thrown over his shoulder without seeing where [they fell]
  
Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer
  
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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