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706 THE (EGIHA LANGUAGE—MYTHS, STORIES, AND LETTERS. 
wamuské cti bgtiga ugfji améga", uda*gti g¢i” ama ha. .Ca™ efa™ ¢é 
wheat too as they have mianied very good they are sitting fs And how this 
their own, 
ma"b¢i” té ga™ wisi¢ai ma™b¢i”. Ca" ¢é¢u ag¢i té ¢éama waqe amd 
I walk the atany Iremember I walk. And here Ire- the these white the (pl. 
rate you (pl.) turned people sub.) 
, ° a4 . ae . 
uda*qti waja”be ha. Ca" ticka” wab¢ipi-méji di a®ckdxe te¢a™ja, anfja 
very good I see them : And deed I did them (?) wrong Iwas youmade  although,in Ilive 
return- (=reck- the past, 
ing oned) me 
ka"b¢éga", égima™ ha. Ca™ uma” ¢inka dnactécté anfya ka™b¢ega", aa™he: 
I hoped, T did that And season how many so- Ilive T hoped, I fled: 
ever 
wakéga té na”ape ha. Céama wéoni™ ¢andji"-ma ¢a‘éwa¢a¢e’qti ka” 
sick the I feared the : Those you keep youstand the you have great pity on us 
seen danger them ones them that 
who 
eb¢éga® ha, i¢adi¢at ¢ie wawiké ha. Ca™ éskana i¢ie té ¢uta®qti twa- 
Ithink that. agent you Imean you : And ohthat Ispeak the very straight you 
¢agiona eb¢éga” ha. . . . Céma udwakiji-ma, i”na"ha, fdawé¢e-ma 
tell them Ithink that. Those those who my mothers, the ones who gave 
are my near kindred, me birth 
wakihida-ga; watizaqti awdgija*be ka™b¢éga™ ha Nanka-t‘ai écti éga" 
attend thou to them; all together I see coe my I hope Has-a-Back he too 80 
own 
wakihide ka"b¢éga", udawakiji-mé. Cahié¢a indadi écti éga® céma udwa- 
he attends to I hope, those who are my Cheyenne my father he too so those those who 
them near kindred. 
kiji-ma wakihide ka™b¢éea". Matet-ndji e¢a™ba g@d¢a® wii. Wadutada 
. D> J to) 
are my near he attends to T hope. Standing Grizzly he too that I give to Oto 
kindred them bear (ob.) you (pl.). 
¢ankadi angag¢i. té’di can’ge diba waoni" ¢aki-bi, ¢€ ti¢ai ha, é té Ba- 
to the (pl.) we came when horse four you had reached there that they 0 said Bat- 
bac again with them, it sent 
was said, hither 
dize aka. Ki wi"a”wajata" can’ge-ma wa¢i" ki éte Mwi™¢a i¢a- ga hi, 
tiste the And whence the fom they reached if to tell me send 
(sub.) there again with hither 
them 
Gahige. 
Gahige. 
NOTES. 
The writer refused to send this letter to the Indian Territory, so Unaji*-skai applied 
to some one else to act as his amanuensis. 
Unaji®-ska was a son of Cahie¢a, a Yankton who was adopted by the Ponkas. 
This letter was sent to the Ponka Gahige. 
706, 3. Ca® cka™ wab¢ipi-maji, etc. Addressed to the Ponka agent, Mr. White- 
man. At first Unaji"-ska dictated the following: Ca® ucka™ wab¢ipi-maji/-qti-ma™ 
di ¢aja, And although I did the tribe (2) a great wrong by (or, before) returning (to the 
Omahas). But on reflection, as this had “a bad meaning” (sic), he changed it. 
706, 7. Cema uawakiji-ma. The idea of suckling is implied here in this phrase 
(from uji, to fill with a liquid or many small objects), in other cases it refers to those 
who suck the breast together. The messages to Gahige were resumed in this line. 
706, 8. Nanka-t‘a"i, a name of Gacudi¢a", Wa¢idazé, “ Fire-shaker,” a shaman in 
1871, but now a leader of the civilization partyin the tribe. 706, 9. Cahie¢a, the real 
father of Unaji®-ska. 706, 11. Badize, Battiste Barnaby, the Ponka interpreter. 
