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na:sgigwo unihy6:hisdi yimga:hl(i)sda 



that, just to bring it (hard), they if It just became 



gha^ narsgigwo i:gd:i go:w6:lv:gd a?n(a)sgv:dhi 



now that, just all I just wrote it May 



a:sgwadi:sgv i:ga 1859 ude:dhiyV:sadi:sT? 



finishing, it day 1859 year 



iy<'^:dv ghorhi tsigi da:tsv:dha[^8] 



this far now this it is Da:tsv:dha 



tsago:li:ye:di 

 to read, you 



(on verso) 



da:tsv:dha u:tse:li:ga hi'i'a'i' gohwerli 



Da;tsv.-dha his this letter 



FREE TRANSLATION 



(on becto) 



Now! Now I, 0:si, just wrote this at the end of May. 



Wini, who came from Qualla, just passed away here m Tennessee 

 on the 28th of May. Her burial clothes were expensive, but we paid 

 for them, and the White man who shipped the coffin also charged $2.00. 

 This is the third time I have told you I have told you officials over 

 there that you must think this over quickly, for much work has been 

 lost. He wants the cost to be sent from over there. I, 0:si, have 

 just asked you authorities who live over there in Qualla to pay this 

 debt to her and make this good. We who live here in Tennessee 

 paid for her burial clothes. 



As she was about to die, she made it plain to U:sawi and De:hw{i) si, 

 telling them: '^Ne:gi owes me $1.00. My uncle Digu:dhline:sgi 

 owes me $20.00. I owe the store," She stated that this debt was 

 written down, but we do not know the amount. 



If you will find the money for this coffin quickly, it wiU be very good 

 if you will turn it over to Nv:tsi and Tsino:hi, who just went to QuaUa. 

 They will bring it. 



Now! That is all that I just wrote on the last day of May, 1859, 

 for you, Da:tsv:dha, to read. 



(on verso) 

 This is Da:tsv:dha's letter. 



COMMENTARY 



Government records attest to the inefficiency of the operation of 

 expelling the Cherokee: small groups in Tennessee, Georgia, and 

 Alabama, as weU as in North Carolina, evaded the snare. While 



»8 'He-Just- Won.' 



