tohodena

Updated: May 18, 2025

Navvy had finally come to his full share of praise from all of us. Even Jim acknowledged that the Indian was invaluable to a hunting party in a country where grass and water were hard to find and wild horses haunted the trails. "Tohodena! Tohodena! As we sat down to breakfast he loped off into the forest and before we got up the bells of the horses were jingling in the hollow.

Zane Grey - Tales of lonely trails

"He says you need meat lots of deer-meat," translated Naab. "Sick," repeated Eschtah, whose English was intelligible. He appeared to be casting about in his mind for additional words to express his knowledge of the white man's tongue, and, failing, continued in Navajo: "Tohodena moocha malocha." Hare was nonplussed at the roar of laughter from the Mormons.

Zane Grey - Heritage of the Desert