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Omaha Agency, July 9, 1891.

My dear Miss Fletcher:

Yesterday was everything that could be desired.  There are three camps of Indians here holding high festival; one of them has about 1000 Omahas, Poncas & Sioux. In that camp we saw the Was-wa-chu and Hae-Thuska dances and a big parade of new and [[?]] dancers on horseback in all the splendor of barbaric ornament. The young Hae-thuska dancers were got up regardless; - paint, feathers, bells. Their dance stirred me up immensely and now I