Omaha and Ponka letters / by James Owen Dorsey.

  • Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895.
Date:
1891
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Omaha and Ponka letters / by James Owen Dorsey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    u‘ag<fa an'gatfi11 wawetfita11 cutfai. Majan/ <^an/di Wakaikda suffering we who move to work at he has gone Land in the God various things to you. for us aka waxai egan, e'di anman/^ini <fan/ja, edada11 anguqihi-baji. the sub. made us having, there we have walked though, what we have not suc¬ ceeded at. Edada11 anguqihi-baji gan/, can/ rnkacin/ga uke<fin ar/gatfi11 What we have not sue- as, yet Indian we who ceeded at move u^ita11 wackaxai. Gtan/ piajkqti ke-na11' Iqiga^ai aka uha work you have made And very bad the usu- Grandfather (trouble) for us. the usu¬ ally the to go sub. along the path wegau<fai, ada11 mkacin/ga ce<fiu/ wadan/beqti ciufe, wawetfita11 wishes for us, there- person that one having really seen has gone to work at fore mv. near us to you (by various things mv. near you for us request), cu<fe. Nikacin/ga wackan'pmga-mace, Wakan'da nahaBi-mace, has gone Person ye who are strong God ye who pray to him, to you (by re¬ quest). uiqaBi-ga. help ye him. Joseph La Fleche said:—Kag<5ha, majan/ tfan'di United My friend, land in the United States e'di mkaciB/ga-mace, wib<fahan/i ha. Nikacin/ga-mac§ States there O ye people ! I pray to you (pi.) . O ye people ! bifugaqti wlb<fahan/i ha. Can/ wabagifeze <fe<fan ctan/bai qi, I pray to you (pi.) . And letter this ob. you see it when, all <fa‘eawa<fa<fai angan'<fai egan, iD<fibaxiii ha. CaB/ <fe pahan'- you have mercy on us we wish as, we have writ- . And this for- ten to you gadi majan/ <fe<fandi anmau/(fin te'di, <fegan ctewan/ an<fan/- merly land in this we walked when, of this sort at all wo did bahan-baji. GaB/ majan/ (fan'di Wakan'da aka edada11 ct^cte not. know. And land in the God the sub. what soever an<fate tait<S, jiit‘au wegaxai ^gan, a11 (fate anman/<fin egan, we eat. it shall, to have he made for as, we ate we walked as, bodies us enaqtci weawajin/ska anman/<fini ha, Ki egitfe, mkacin/ga-mace, that alone we had sense by we walked . And behold, O ye people, means of ucka11 giteqi wackaxai ha. Ki weteqi qi, mi(fa wa<fin'gai deed hard for you make (for) . And hard for if, refuge we have none one us us qi, Eigan(fai e di angatfai ega11, aBwan/<fahan-nan/i. Ki le te if, Grandfather there we go as, we pray to them usu- And word the ally. ob. w^<fiza-b4ji-nan/i. Ki we<fiza-baji te i<fe an(fan/qidalia11/i. they have not re- usu- And they have not the behold we know it for ourselves ceived from us ally. taken them (or by experience). from us Egitfe mkacin/ga an/<fin-baji-bi e<fegan aka. Ki mkacin/ga Behold human beings that we are not they are thinking it. And human beings