"Make [my] people for me like your [people]
(2.32)[32]
"'Aaí 'áńt'éí 'ághát'égo 'aań nndé shá'ágháͅlá. 'Áíbíká
nch'iͅiͅhoͅoͅka."
goołndiná'a, Niishjaahaastiͅiͅń.
"Make [my] people for me like your [people]
[5]. That is why we have come to you,"
said Old Man Owl
to him.
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(2.32) Linguistic Notes
The first line of this passage is literally as follows: "Those / that you
are so / being just so / those / people / you will make them
so for me." See Ethnological note to the English translation of Mescalero
text 2.5.
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Ethnological Note 5
This passage is somewhat obscure. The meaning to be
conveyed is that Owl is asking Coyote to make hats [or ears] for his people
similar to those possessed by Coyote's people.