UNACDI-SKA TO WES‘A-,ANGA. 707 
TRANSLATION. 
I have returned. As I have come back to the Omahas, they have condoled with 
me because they pity me. I have returned to Joe’s (lodge), and there I stay. He 
treats me very kindly, and I eat excellent food. Those Dakotas have come, it is said, 
to the Winnebago Reservation. I have not yet seen them. I will see them to-morrow 
or at some future day. Isuffered exceedingly before I returned here (or, as I returned 
to this place). I have not yet returned to the Yankton Reservation because the horses 
are weary. And, moreover, I have not yet begun to have enough of intercourse with 
the people here. I send to tell you, in order that you (pl.) may know that I have 
returned here. It has been very good for me merely to breathe the air (with a sense 
of freedom) since I have come here. The Omahas continue just as they were when we 
saw them formerly. They are prospering, as they have sown their wheat. And no 
matter how I get along here, I continue to think of you all. And when I returned 
here I beheld the white people who are neighbors to the Omahas, and these white 
people are doing very well. Although you reckoned that I was returning hither on 
account of bad deeds which I had done, it was not so. I did that because I wished to 
live. As I hoped to live for a number of years to come, I fled (from Indian Territory). 
I feared to encounter the sickness. I hope that you will have great pity on those 
(Indians) whom you continue to keep. I refer to you, O agent! I hope that you will 
tell them exactly what I speak. . . . Attend to those who are my near kindred, 
my mothers, the ones who gave me birth. I hope to see them all together. I hope 
that Has.a-back will likewise attend to those who are my near kindred. I make a 
similar request of Cheyenne, my father. I give this message to you (whom I have 
named?) and also to Standing Bear. Battiste has said that word has been sent hither 
that when we came back hither from the Otos, you returned there (the Ponka Agency ?) 
with four horses. O Gahige, send and tell me where they obtained those horses which 
they took home (to the Ponkas). 
UNAJIX-SKA TO WES‘A-,ANGA. 
A™ba ¢é¢u Caa™ ama waja”be ha, Umdéha fi ¢an’di. A da"bai 
Day here Dakota oie (ol I saw them Omaha village in the. They saw me 
subj.) 
éoa™ v‘ean¢éeqti in’kati ha. I“¢a-maéji tedibe. ‘“Awddi  né- Oe 
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they pitied me ex- they con- am sad- very. Where you went as 
ceedingly doled with me 
» pase Pee my ate Ete Ce omens 
nin’de waqpani- wa¢d¢ai, xedwad¢a¢ai,” i*¢in gar ¢eama. Qiamja, ‘“Wanace, 
anxious you (pl.) have you (pl.) have made they said the these. Though, Policemen, 
made us us weep, foregoing to me 
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¢ie a” warja”i,” ehé. “Jingdaqtci ¢e-ma gi ¢ajiwagagal, wandice-macé.” Ca” 
you are they whocaused I said. Verysmall theseones you have made them O ye policemen ? Yet 
me the trouble, (pl. ob.) sad, 
licka® whg¢a ké nain’de wha iga”a¢é ¢a™ ean’kiga™i ha, of ¢a-baji qtia™ 1. 
deed TI suffer the heart my I put it in the they were like : they were very sad. 
(coll) (ob.) me 
