OMAHA AND PONKA LETTERS. 5] 
na™i. Winégi uddkie yi, e‘a™i té waqi™ha uq¢é’qtci tia’- 
usually My uncle youtalk when, how he the paper very soon you 
(pl.). to him is send 
2 , , 1 , la ~ / jp e , Y 
¢aki¢é ka*b¢éga". Wabag¢eze ¢éa¢é-na*-ma™ ¢a™ ja, wi"-écte- 
hither to I hope. Letters I have sent him regu. though, even one 
me larly 
wa" ti¢aji-na” ada" wawcéamaxe cu¢er¢e. 
hehas  usu- — there- Task different IT send to 
not sent ally fore questions you, 
hither : 
TRANSLATION. 
My friend, as I have heard very few reports, [ will send them to you. 
I have heard it said that a Ponka, Big Snake, has been killed. (The 
agent) has been treating the Ponkas very cruelly. You are doing well 
to stay in that land (2. e.,the Yankton Reservation). I used to see you 
regularly when I visited you yonder, and from time to time I saw that 
you were prospering. White Shirt, a man whom [ call my uncle, has 
gone to you. If you see him, be very kind to him now and then. ‘Tell 
him to walk soberly. I will see you all next month. I send to tell you 
that if you know of any small (or, trifling) thing which [ would be glad 
to have, you will send and tell me. I wish to hear of all the kinds of 
work which they do. When I saw your people in former days, they 
were generally very beneficent. [hope that you will send me a letter 
very soon, and tell me how my mother’s brother is when you talk to 
him. Though I have been sending him letters regularly, he has not 
replied even once, therefore I send to you to ask different questions. 
NUDA*-AXA, A PONKA, TO T. H. TIBBLES, AND OTHERS. NOVEMBER, 
1879. 
Nikaci’ ga uké¢i" a¢i"hé edada® daxe té da™jinga-na"-ma"™, 
Indian common I who what I do the I usually do not know 
move how to do it. 
e / , , ° o v, , . 
(fi-na® edada” ckaxai yi, Uda" eté yi ckaxai, Ada", ka- 
You alone what you (pl.) if, good ought you (pl.) there- oO 
do do it, fore, 
géha, ie ké uda"™ eté yi i¢éckaxe etéga™ aha® eb¢éga™ éga’, 
friends, word the good ought you make for me apt ! T think it as, 
, bed , , , v / , 
piqti wib¢aha" uwib¢a cu¢éade. Wakan’da aka, kag¢ha, 
anew I pray to you I tell it to T send it to God the sub., O friends, 
you you (s). 
*n/ = ae , 22'S , Z , . = oP 
waqi"ha ska’ a™i-baji, ¢i, kagéha, waqi™ha ska’ ¢a" ¢i‘f. 
paper white didnot give you, 0 friends, paper white the he 
it to me, ob. gave 
it to 
P you. 
, , & , oe . . , . 
Ada™ ¢i edada" ké fepaha™ hi. Ada™ im¢éckaxe tai-éga’, 
There- you what the you know it : There- you do it for in order that, 
fore ob. fore me (pl.), 
, s ° , , 
kagcha, uwib¢a cug¢éa¢ai ci, kagcha. 
O friends, I tell it to Isend it to again, O friends 
you you (pl.) 
