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, at another time, they were sitting about.

(31.4)
'Áshíͅ, ła'ndó, naaheestáͅná'a.
'Ákoo hééł baa'isda'óómáázná'a.
Ch'éhádaayintáná'a.
Dá'ákaa 'isda'óómááz.
'Ákaa, dáhot'íͅyá, si'áͅná'a.
Ndah ch'éhádaayintáná'a.

Then, at another time, they were sitting about.
And a pack rolled away from them.
They looked for it in vain.
It had rolled down there.
There, where it could [plainly] be seen, it lay.
But they looked for it in vain.

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Then, at another time, they were sitting about.