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Coyote and the Creation, Mescalero Apache Text
excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes
5. Coyote and the Creation as told by Charles Smith
Ethnological Notes Morris Opler
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Coyote and the Creation, Mescalero Apache Text
"'Yellow medicine', you will be called.
(5.87)
[87]
"'Izeehootsoń,
n
dí hónghédaał.
n
Dídó, tádídíń díͅíͅ'go yengóń
n
dilgo,
n
déná'dóͅóͅłchiił.
"'Yellow medicine', you will be called. You alone, when they have thrown pollen at you four times, will cure them.
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(5.87) Linguistic Notes
'izeehootsoń
'yellow medicine'. hootso 'it is yellow' [?].
Coyote and the Creation, Mescalero Apache Text