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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 the Foolish People came to him in a body.

(24.6)[6]
Nágo Tsiͅłkizhéneí baajiyeezhoozhná'a.
Łáͅgo

"'Iyáa ńndi?"

daabiiłndiná'a.

Then the Foolish People came to him in a body.

"What did you say?"

said many of them to him.

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(24.6) Linguistic Notes

baajiyeezhoozhná'a 'they came to him in a body' . 3rd person perf. of Oaa-ji-yi-...[si- perf.] -zhoosh 'a group comes to someone' [act. intr.; aa- 'to'; ji-yi- ?].

University of Virginia Library

Then the Foolish People came to him in a body.