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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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"Very well, I shall not do so again. When I have been to these people, then I shall not go anywhere from you again. We will return to our own people. I do not know where the camp is but someone somewhere will tell us about it. Later, when I return, I will tell you the story. Therefore, all of you embrace me well. Then I'll leave you."

(5.9)[9]

"'Íyaͅaͅdań, doo'ághánáánáshndáda. Dá'áń ndéná góbaanáánánshdán, 'áshíͅ ndáségo dooha'á nch'áͅnáádishdáda. Naheełt'éne góbaanádoͅoͅka. Ha'yágo kootaí doobégonsiͅda ndah díík'ehá łi' nahch'ahgołchí. Bikégoná nałgodooshndi ha'go nánshdzágo. 'Íyaͅaͅ, dánahík'eh góͅzhóͅgo shizénáhndi. 'Ákoo nahch'áͅoshááł."

"Very well, I shall not do so again. When I have been to these people, then I shall not go anywhere from you again. We will return to our own people. I do not know where the camp is but someone somewhere will tell us about it. Later, when I return, I will tell you the story. Therefore, all of you embrace me well. Then I'll leave you."

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(5.9) Linguistic Notes

naheełt'éne 'our relatives'. naheełt'é 'they are like us, similar to us', 3rd person of 0ee...-ł-t'é 'to be like, similar to' [imp. neut. intr.]; -ne 'people of such and such a group'.