HEQAGA SABE TO KUCACA. 637 
TRANSLATION. 
I have been living as a white man for six months. Formerly, when I was a wild 
Indian, you did not help me. At that time I had no one to teach me. But now « 
have the missionary, and I wish to improve. So if you are willing to make me thank- 
ful suddenly (or unexpectedly), I hope, my friend, that you will send me something or 
other, 
Tam always thinking about you. I have not known good agents. I have been 
always thinking about my hunger. Just now the white agent has given me one of the 
Ponkaoxen. You are good, but he has excelled you. I refer to another agent, a very 
good man, who has come recently. O father, if you are pleased with what I am doing, 
I wish you to give me some tool or other useful appliance. 
HEQAGA SABE TO KUCACA. 1872. 
Wabaxu ¢and ¢é cug¢cade. (iéaka i¢ddi¢ai aké udarqti aka, éga" 
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Letter you is Isend to vou. This one agent the very good the 
asked (sub.) (sub.) (sub.), 
for 
edida® tiju taité weagibtha g¢i”, uni‘a™ a” ¢agaji te udna‘a". Maca® ska 
what impor- _ shall showing to us, sits, to hear you com- as I have heard Feather White 
tant be (pl.) his own about it manded me about it. 
cti¢edki¢e waqi™ ha. Céki ma™zéska té ab¢i’. Ag¢i te, ecé. Weébaxti-ga! 3 
I sent it to you paper. Ceki money the Ihave. Icome will you Write to us! 
for him home said. 
Wi ub¢a™ te, ecd. Wagqivha ug¢é’qtci ka” b¢a, wabaxu é Awake. I™ja- 
I I take will, you Paper very soon I desire, letter that Imean: We usn- 
hold said. ally 
na“i Umiha i¢ddi¢ai ¢inké. Wi wabixu gian‘ki¢e té’, and‘a" ka™b¢a. 
doubt. Omaha agent the one I letter is caused to when, I hear it I wish. 
him who. come back 
for me 
_X — / a! 
Kga" anga”™ ¢al. : 6 
80 we desire. 
NOTES. 
Kueaea, prob. the Omaha notation of the Pawnee name for Rousseau Pepin or 
Pappan, an Omaha. 
637, 1. i¢adi¢ai, i.¢., C. P. Birkett, of Nebraska. 
637, 2. Maca®ska, White Quill-feather, a Ponka, who died afterwards at the Omaha 
Reservation in Nebraska. 
637, 5. Umaha i¢adi¢ai ¢iike, the Omaha agent, Edward Painter, M. D., of 
Maryland. 
TRANSLATION. 
I send you this letter for which you asked. This agent whom we now have is very 
good; so he continues showing to us (‘to whom he belongs as agent”) the things which 
shall be important for us. As you commanded me to hear about it, I have done so. 
I sent a letter to you for White Quill-feather. O Ceki, I have the money. You said, 
“JT will return.” Write tous. You said, ‘I will take hold of it.” I desire a paper 
very soon, I mean a letter. We usually doubt the Omaha agent. When a letter is 
sent to me, I wish to hear what you intend doing. All of us have a similar desire. 
