Stories of the Foolish People, Chiricahua Apache Text ::

Stories of the Foolish People, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

31. Stories of the Foolish People as told by Duncan Belacho

31.1.

[These are] stories of the Foolish People.

31.2.

Many of them were travelling.

31.3.

Then another one shot at his forehead.

31.4.

Then, at another time, they were sitting about.

31.5.

Then they went back home.

31.6.

Then:

31.7.

Then they cooked meat for him.

Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer

Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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Then another one shot at his forehead.

(31.3)
'Ákoo łaa'ń bítázhiͅ yíńłt'oná'a.
'Ákoo 'ádíń ítázhiͅ 'isdeest'oń 'áí ńziͅná'a.
Dáhanshchaiíná jiiłhé ńziͅná'a.
'Áí'a bídó jiyeesxíͅná'a.

Then another one shot at his forehead.
And the one who shot at his forehead thought thus.
He thought [that] he'd kill only the grasshopper.
But he had killed [the man] also.

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Then another one shot at his forehead.