Post by Okwes on Apr 9, 2008 17:24:18 GMT -5
Frog Wins From Antelope In A Footrace - Apache / Jicarilla
Two antelope were gambling with a white tailed deer and a frog. The antelope
and deer ran a race in the woods. White tail deer jumped over the tree and
beat, for antelope had to run where there are no trees. He won from antelope
the dew claws and the fat on the hips.
Then the antelope suggested that they run a race with frog out on the
plains. Many frogs put themselves in a line, reaching from the starting
place to the goal. When they started to run each frog jumped this way just
as one shakes a string. The antelope was beaten because he thought frog
could not possibly win. That was the way it was done.
Footnotes:
The story is told of Coyote and Turtles among other tribes. Dorsey, (d), p.
105; (e), p, 143.
Jicarilla Apache Texts, by Pliny Earle Goddard; New York: Anthropological
Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. VIII; [1911] and is
now in the public domain.
Two antelope were gambling with a white tailed deer and a frog. The antelope
and deer ran a race in the woods. White tail deer jumped over the tree and
beat, for antelope had to run where there are no trees. He won from antelope
the dew claws and the fat on the hips.
Then the antelope suggested that they run a race with frog out on the
plains. Many frogs put themselves in a line, reaching from the starting
place to the goal. When they started to run each frog jumped this way just
as one shakes a string. The antelope was beaten because he thought frog
could not possibly win. That was the way it was done.
Footnotes:
The story is told of Coyote and Turtles among other tribes. Dorsey, (d), p.
105; (e), p, 143.
Jicarilla Apache Texts, by Pliny Earle Goddard; New York: Anthropological
Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. VIII; [1911] and is
now in the public domain.