OMAHA AND PONKA LETTERS. 39 
, ° , 7 , Oo e , , yv 
b¢étigagti qtaadé b¢éé Uadwaya" wa¢in’gai. Waqe-macé, 
all I love it I vo. To help us we have none. O ye white people, 
udwad¢aya”i yi, a™nija etéga®. Kagéha, niu¢an ‘da be¢u tiga 
you help us if, we live apt. My friend, island 
éskana niaci”ga und‘a"wad¢iki¢at ka™b¢éga". Niaci ga-ma 
oh that people you cause them to hear I hope. The onl 
about it 
atwa’na‘a™i tédihi yi, waqi”ha wi” a™i i¢a-oa. Te uda*qti 
they hear about me by the when, paper one give se ni it Word very good 
time to me hither. 
arrives 
, ° , ~, Wa , 
edibe gaxe-‘i i¢i-ga. Ikagewi¢e’qti ayidaxe. Kagcha, 
also to make give send it I have you for my TI make it My friend, 
it it hither. true friend for myself. 
. . a , *1)/ ~ me 
wagazugqti uwib¢a. (hika dge-ma Uwagida-ga. Kagéha, i’ ¢éqti 
very straight T tell it to Your friends teil it to them. My friend, Iam very 
you. (pl ob.) glad 
;, i , aie [| (oe ra ie ; / Su 
wija™ be ag¢i™ dea” a” ba ida™qti uwikie. Kag¢éha, a®cta™ baji 
IT see you I sit so day very good I talk to My friend, you have not 
: you. seen me 
gva”ada™ a™¢an’da té uwibé¢a ta minke. Ma¢é o¢éba-¢ab¢ir 
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as, therefore I was born the I will tell you. W inter thirty 
Se) we / en/ 
ki 6di na™ba bd¢i”. 
and on it two Tam. 
NOTES. 
Mr. Heath asked this letter for publication in *¢ The Cincinnati Com- 
mercial.” 
37,19. Aigueja marks a contrast between the Omahas and the white 
men. Supply a sentence, such as, Pieja cti, waqe-macé, maja” ¢a® 
tda® cta™bai-dé weadat’anai, Vé we¢écka"nai: “ But you, on the other 
hand, O ye white people, when you saw that the land was good, you hated 
us and wished us to die.” L. wrote angti eja. 
38, 10. Hupe¢a began the dictation of the following in Omaha, but 
the author did not record it in that dialect, except the first clause | Ii 
maja™ pahan/ga u¢ag¢i" ¢ar, And (in) the part of this land in which you 
Jirst dwelt|: * And we did not say that you were bad, when you were 
in the part of this land to which you first came. But if we, in turn, 
were to, cross over to that land from which you came, they would send 
us back home.” 
TRANSLATION. 
My friend, I have seen the letter to-day. My friends, O ye people, I 
hope that you may see me, and that I may see you. O ye people, as L love 
you because you work for yourselves, I do that (7. e., | work for myself). 
Il sowed twenty bushels of wheat, and did very welll I planted thirty 
bushels of corn, twenty bushels of (Irish) potatoes, onions, turnips, beans; 
Isucceeded very well with all. [also made an excellent house for myself, 
but I have lost it by fire. I have ten hogs, one cow, four geese, and one 
turkey: I think, my friend, that jast now [ have all the things by means 
