OMAHA AND PONKA LETTERS. 91 
I have come tothe house of: the President. TI wish to see you and 
observe how youare. If I think, “He is doing very well!” I shall have 
good cause for joy. 
MA*TCU-NILA TO MRS. AMOS ROSS. JANUARY, 1881. 
Qlisan’ga te te’ ¢iha” xagé yie¢atte ¢¢. Na, (busi 
Your younger is the your weeping she kills her-. she Why! Lucy 
brother dead (=as) mother : self by crying. goes. (Alas!) 
ae , . / . , Re fade ° eC 
Aju¢iki e¢at’ba, ¢igha"™ba-baji giteqi héga-baji, Qdéaka 
Angelique she too, she does not see you it is very difficult for her to This one 
(pl. obj.), her own bear. 
Si , kad are ite emis rere |; Dade opps Steyn Gentine CAE i 
am aKa Wau Wl uda qt o¢a 1, cin gayi ga ta 1, NUjINga. 
Sam the woman one Very good he mar- child he has, boy. 
sub. ried her, 
: — / >] vl —/ , , . ° oe. , By . / 
(isan ea tle te ecai’ge wija tidaqti wi" ¢ingéage. (iha™ 
our younger is the horse my very good one I have given Your 
brother dead (=as) away. mother 
nin wdatat) 17714 
wagpanii ji uda"gti judg¢e. 
not poor very good Jam with 
her. 
NOTES. 
Dictated at Ponka Agency, Indian Territory, by the husband of Ujan- 
gedabi. The latter was the mother of Lucy Gayton (now the wife of 
Rev. Amos Ross), a ward of the writer in 1872~73. Mrs. Ross is with 
her husband, who is a Santee Dakota, and also a missionary to the 
Dakotas at Pine Ridge Agency. 
91, 1. Gisanga, McClellan Gayton, who died in 1880. Aju¢iki, Ange- 
lique, was the youngest of the three. She died when she was eighteen, 
in 1884. 
91, 3. Sam, Ma‘a-jin’ga, Inttle Cottonwood, or Sam Gayton, was the 
half brother (by the same mother) of Lucy, Mac, and Angelique. 
The last two sentences were not recorded in Ponka. 
TRANSLATION. 
Your mother is going to cry herself to death, as she has heard of the 
death of your younger brother. Alas! Lucey and Angelique! she is in 
sore trouble because she can not see you. Sam has married a fine 
woman, and they have achild, a boy. When I heard that your younger 
brother was dead, I gave away one of my best horses. I live with your 
mother very comfortably, as we are not poor. (Send your two pictures 
to your mother very soon. I wish your husband to send me a red Cat- 
linite pipe by mail.) 
