The Mescaleros' Prophecy, Mescalero Apache Text excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes |
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| 9.3. |
Long ago there were no white men.
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Long ago there were no white men.
(9.3)
'Iłk'idáͅ 'indaa'édaadiͅdáͅ.
'Iłk'idáͅnndéne 'ághándi.
'Iͅiͅjiͅ 'indaa doot'íͅdadáͅ.
K'adi 'ághádzaa.
'Iłk'idáͅ 'indaa'édaadiͅdáͅ.
'Iłk'idáͅnndéne 'ághándi.
'Iͅiͅjiͅ 'indaa doot'íͅdadáͅ.
'Indaałigańne bindáaí datł'ijí dándéná ndiií
beedahgoos'áͅdaał."
daandí.
K'adi 'ághádzaa.
Long ago there were no white men.
The people of long ago spoke thus.
At that time they had seen no white men here.
Now it has become so.
The people of long ago spoke thus.
At that time they had seen no white men here.
"Only white men with blue eyes will live in this country,"
they said. Now it has become so.
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