646 THE ¢eGIHA LANGUAGE—MYTHS, STORIES, AND LETTERS. 
TRANSLATION. 
That letter goes to you. At any rate, as I think of you (pl.), letters shall be reach- 
ing you regularly. Just about this time I am thinking how you are getting along. 
And I wish to hear from you again. The Omahas do not receive any more money an- 
nuities. They used to receive money at different periods in the past; but now they 
do not receive it, as (the white people) do not give it to us at all. Therefore you will 
not have your way about the money for which you asked; as they continue to give us 
none, you can not have your way. I said that I had plenty of wheat, and so it con- 
tinues. I sowed a large piece of land in wheat, and I have two hundred bushels. I 
long for you to be here when wheat and other kinds of food abound. [also have 
plenty of corn. I have plenty of Irish potatoes. I have all the (fruits or) vegetables 
of the white men. I have an abundance of whatever I have. Tormerly I hated the 
Omaha chiefs. But now the people are prospering, and I do not hate the chiefs. I 
adhere to the chiefs’ side, going in and out among them, and attending the feasts, so I 
am prospering. The chieftainship is good, and if I should hate them I might do wrong. 
The chiefs have said to me, “‘ You ought to do something for a poor man if you see one 
in that condition. When a man desires something, and is poor, do you aid him.” 
Therefore I pity the poor man now. All the horses which I had have been expended, 
as I have been making presents regularly to various poor men. And only those horses 
remain which draw my wagon. I hope that I shall see you. Now I am without any 
horse beside them (the wagon horses). 
The Omahas wish to live as white men. La Fléche and forty men (who side) with 
him desire to live as white men. AIl the Omahas are unwilling. All the young men 
prize their chiefs. We hate those who live as white men. The chiefs and those who 
do not live as white men will be coming to you this year. If you see one of those who 
live as white men, you should not give him anything, for those who live as white 
men desire to abandon the life as Indians. But I do not wish to throw away from my- 
self the Indian way. My sister came very near dying from illness. But now she is 
convalescent. I have not yet been there to see her, as I have been very busy attend- 
ing to my work. Her son has been coming regularly to tell me how she is. I am 
progressing with the raising of many small vegetables, and I fear lest they should be 
stolen; therefore I have not been going thither. I keep at my work very close to the 
house. Iam far from the land (where you are now), therefore I have not been there. 
I hope that you may cultivate a large tract of the land (in which you now dwell). 
When I go to see you, I will be apt to examine it to see whether you cultivate it ex- 
tensively. 
I desire to marry a Pawnee woman. 
