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t'ea"'fd a"ma"'fi"i, a"fafi'}-[igfigfa"qti a"ina"'fi"i, mi dga"qtl a"ma"'fi"i.    Ki

wokillid        we walkf!d,          we deciding altouetber fur        wewalked,        man     juat like        wr walked.          And

ourselves

i"'tca"   td'di   licka" gd e-na"'   aflgisifd'qti  a"ma"'fi" taitd fingd.   Wdqe-ma

now         whou        deed        tbe        only        we remember well        we walk         shall      wiinting.       Tlie wliite peo-

(pl.       those                                                              (pl.)                                pie

(,b.)

^icka" e4ai kd a"fa"'baha"-baji ctdctewa",  ca"' e^dfica" wia"'fiqe tai.    Edi    3

deed       their    the          wedo not know            notwitb.stand-        yet     towards them       let us shape our         In that

ing,                                                        course.

I'P wduda" a"ma"'fi" tai.

case  good for us        We ahall walk.

NOTE.

According to George Miller, an Omaha, the old men of his tribe often make such
an address to the young men.

TRANSLATION.

O ye people, if you ever accomplish anything for yourselves it will be only wheu
you work so hard for yourselves that you pant incessantly thereafter. Do your best!
Do not depend on any one else. The Mysterious Power made us all Indians in this
country, but all those things which he made for our constant good have disappeared.
The entire country is lull of white people, so the (juadrupeds which had beeu made by
the Mysterious Power for our advantage have been exterminated, they have been
shot. In the forraer days we went about killing the quadrupeds who had no owners,
we governed ourselves, going wherever we pleased, we went about just as men should
do. But now it is impossible for us to think auy longer about those deeds of the past.
Although we are ignorant of the custoras of the white people, let us shape our course
iu that direction.   In that case we shall prosper.
 

LETTERS.
 

j^ENUGA NAJI^ TO HIS FRIEND GRAY HAT.

(pifu Wafdge   qiide  gfi   :jiI,   udkie.    I|iga"fai   ki'ia   pi,   Wdji"(ldfi"

Here             Hat             gray        had   when,    I talked to       Grandfather       at the      I was        AVushiuglou

come                 him.                                   (place)     there,

back

V   dwake, maja"'   fdfa" wiwija   l4iga"fai   finkd wdbfi"wi"   pi.   Nikaci"'ga

that    I iiii-ao,          land        tbis (cv.)         my        Ho wlidm they      the (st.          I sell it         I waa          People

have for a grand-      ob.)                                  there,

lather

kr^li   amd   hideaja   amd   ^Idhi"-:jan'ga-ma dkiga"'qti wa;a°'be.    Kl   dgife

tbosi-who were     tboan lower down tlir.             tlio Aiiicriran.s                 just like           I saw tbem.         Aud    .at length

tliere                 Missouri It.