NUDA*-AXA TO REV. A. L. RIGGS. 763 
TRANSLATION. 
O ye people, we Indians, thank you who are our (friends). O friend, we continue 
to think of you at different times. On this day we desire that you would treat us with 
great kindness who are some of the Indians that are in a most pitiful condition (?). We 
have caused one of our friends to write this. We thank you. O Third son, we hope 
that when you wake up each day you will remember that we have petitioned to you. 
We Indians, O Third son, do not wish to break our word when we have talked to a 
person. Third son, we do not know when the time shall come for us to die. O friend, 
one who is on the side of his friends really wishes them to live. We have caused this 
friend to write a letter so that you might hear it. It has just been one week since we 
lost Ma*¢i®-tcayi by death. When Gray Coat (Mr. Tibbles) went homeward, he spoke 
words of pity, and made us very glad by what he said. And now there is no danger 
of our-perishing (as a tribe); he has told us that we ought to prosper. 
NUDA®-AXA TO REV. A. L. RIGGS. 
October 14, 1879. 
Kagéha, ikdgewi¢ai, Wakan’da wa¢aha"- macé, wawiuie-micé, 
O friends, I have you for my God ye who pray to him, ye who are under the 
friends, protection of the laws, 
ikAgewi¢e'qti. Ki nikaci”ga wi” Wakan‘da ¢inké fe ey té gaqai. Ki ¢ 
I have you for es And person one God the st. word his the Tas gone And it 
friends. one (ob.) beyond. 
ka™ b¢a-maji. Wakan’da fe e44 zani‘qti b¢izé. Wakan’‘da aka a™¢an‘gitda® 
I do not wish it. God pond his everyone I eh God ane Ido eliby, means 
taken (sub.) i) 
éte té zani‘qti iwi" ¢ai ha, dda™ i ¢é-qti-ma™. Aqa-maji ka™b¢a. Ucka" 
ought the everyone he bas told : there- Iam very glad. I do not go I wish. Deed 
to me fore beyond him 
0 Mattet-ndji® ¢ia’¢a g¢é té béize ha, ub¢a” hi. Qand‘a™ te ha. 
one, Standing Bear he aban- he the TIhave . I have 5 Youhearit will . 
‘ doned you went taken it taken hold 
back of it 
Nikaci”ga wi" cé¢u caki. Isan’ga aka ticka™ wan sige’ qti ii" ¢e gi” 
Person one yonder has His younger the deed his elder the 
reached brother (sub.) brother (mv. 
there again, ob.) 
where you are. 
oiAxai. (and‘a” eté. Cta”be yi, “Nikaci™ ga naxide-¢in’ge aha, ” enéga” 
made for ou hearit ought. Youseehim if, Person disobedient you think 
him. 
eté yi. Hga" we¢écka™nat etéga” éga® ha, Can’ge-hi"-2i-a. fates st 
ought. So you wish for us apt so 5 O Yellow Horse. The Omahas 
¢éama wi™ waq¢i, qénicka. Tedza-¢it’ge t’éa%¢ “gd-bi, ecé te. edge 
bese one stunned denicka. Tcaza-¢inge to kill that he you said it. T kill him 
them, me spoke of it, 
