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160 OMAHA AND PONKA LETTERS. 
gi¢é-na’-ma™. Awagija”be ha. Cin’gajin’ga ¢éama_ tida"qti 
my kindred, asually:) T look after them, , Children these very good 
my own 
madi i, wakéga-baji ma"¢i"i. Ca” a™ba¢é ga, wisi¢é ga”, 
they walk, they a8 not sick they w rd Well, to-day atany Iremem- as, 
rate, ber you 
u y if nN / , bic, ° 
wawidaxu cu¢éa¢é. Ca” Mattct-janga nuigeadi te. Ca™ 
I write to you T send it to Well, Big Bear lastsummer died. Well, 
about something you. 
endqti uqpag¢é, ucté ama ni¢é-¢ingé tidargti mar@i™a. Ca” 
only he has fallen, the rest without pain very good they w ee Well, 
ji@écha, céama nikaci”ga ikagewa¢a¢e-ma, éskana wacka™ 
elder those persons those whom you regard as oh that persevering 
brother, friends. . 
iP. . pee ’ . ld % 
jiwatagig¢e ka"b¢éga". ... Canigé-hi"-ai cti and‘a® ka™ 
you be with them, I hope. Yellow Horse too IT hear him I 
your own 
bééoa iT lé s ki eaoté f id teal 
¢ega”. ... Inde qauga aka cag¢e hal éde, i¢ani 0. Na. ate 
hope. ; Face ta the to go back ie but, I forbade 
sub. to you promised him 
Pahan’gadi cag¢é ‘id¢é yi, cag¢a-maji. Cin’gajin’ga i” wa- 
Formerly to go back I when, I did not go back Child sick 
to you promised to you. 
, 
kega éga", cag¢a-maji. 
for me as, I did not go back 
to you. 
NOTES. 
When the author was at the Kaw Agency, Ind. T., gaqgaiga-najit 
jinga (one of his former scholars in 1871, at the old agency in Dake 
visited the Kaws or Kansas. He dictated the above letter January 2, 
1883. Standing Bear was then on the old reservation in Dakota, about 
three miles from Niobrara, Nebr. gyajanga-naji® jinga is now called 
penuga-zi. See the second letter after this and note on page 105. 
99, 7, giteqi té. yajyanga-naji" jinga said that the chiefs were opposed 
to poet: i the tribe..- 
100, 3. Matteu-janga, Big Grizzly Bear, or Tim Potter, a chief of the 
iweneye gens. Taught by the author in the afternoon school ‘at the 
Ponka Mission, Dak. T., 1871. Subsequently employed by him. He 
could read English very well, giving the proper accents and intonations. 
TRANSLATION. 
O elder brother, I write to you to-day about one subject. Last winter 
Ma*akibana™ went to see you, and on his return to our agency he told 
me that you were very desirous for me to return to the old reservation. 
So I to you write to-day. O elder brother, if you are very anxious for me 
to rejoin you there, I hope that -you wish to receive me (as one of the 
tribe). O elder brother, these Ponka chiefs are not exactly kind to me. 
Elder brother, the white people have been aiding me as much as they 
could, because I work for myself. But, elder brother, it is the chiefs 
