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Coyote and Turtle, Mescalero Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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4. Coyote and Turtle as told by Charles Smith
  
Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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Then they arose.

(4.58)
'Ákoo'a nágodiikaná'a.
"Nzhóͅnk'ehdaa'oͅoͅdáͅ. Nch'áͅnóoka. Shóͅóͅdé, naa'iłénsiͅ. 'Ihéhe."
goołndiná'a, Ts'isteeł haastiͅiͅń.
Then they arose.
"You have fed us well. We are going to leave you. Coyote, I am grateful to you. Thank you."
said Old Man Turtle to him[4].
 
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Ethnological Note 4
This is one of the rare instances where Coyote comes off with honor in a food exchange story.
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