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 they cooked meat for him.

(31.7)[7]
'Ákoo 'itsiͅiͅ yáyiist'éná'a.
'Ákoo łíní yaanái'iͅiͅná'a.
'Ákoo łíní tł'ohí yiiłchozhná'a.
'Ákoo 'ándeeyégosiͅiͅná'a, tł'oh yiyáͅí.

Then they cooked meat for him.
And they gave it to him repeatedly.
But the horse chewed grass.
So they learned for the first time that [a horse] eats grass.

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(31.7) Linguistic Notes

'ándeeyégosiͅiͅná'a 'they learned it for the first time'. 'ándee 'it is new, recent' [see linguistic notes to Chiricahua text 1.18, §3] plus yégosiͅiͅ 'they learned about it' [see note 19.8, §4].

University of Virginia Library

Then they cooked meat for him.