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The Foolish People and the Missing Pack, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

24. The Foolish People and the Missing Pack as told by Sam Kenoi

24.1.

The Foolish People are not clever people

24.2.

They were travelling.

24.3.

When they had stopped, one of them had put his pack down on a slope.

24.4.

This one who had put down the pack ran off to where the encampment had been made.

24.5.

Then he spoke thus:

24.6.

Then the Foolish People came to him in a body.

24.7.

"The pack that I put here, who has taken it from me?"

24.8.

Then many of them trailed this pack from here where it had been.

24.9.

Then the one Mescalero man who was said to live among them came there.

24.10.

Then this Mescalero went to the slope.

Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer

Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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Then this Mescalero went to the slope.

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'Ákoo díí Mashgaléń gosdáádézhiͅ ńłghoná'a.
Nágo góń'áyá dees'íͅná'a.
Góń'áyá, dágołgayá, hééłí si'áͅgo yiiłtsáͅná'a.

"'Ághahyá, góń'áyá hééł si'áͅ."

biłjindiná'a.
'Ákoo 'áshíͅ náyin'áͅná'a.

Then this Mescalero went to the slope.
And he looked into the arroyo.
In the arroyo, in plain sight, he saw the pack lying.

"Down there, in the arroyo, the pack lies."

he said to them.
Then they brought it up from there.

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(24.10) Linguistic Notes

dágołgayá 'in plain sight'. da- 'just' plus gołga 'a plain, a clearing' which is probably łi-ni-...-ga 'to be white' [imp. neut. intr.] with the place subject. Literally: 'right in an open place'.

University of Virginia Library

Then this Mescalero went to the slope.