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[1884]

Omaha Mission Omaha Agency
Nebraska.

Pae de-ga-he. Fire-chief.

My Friend because you have been willing to do for us, and your heart has come down to us, we come to you, [[strikethrough]] still [[/strikethrough]] asking you still to do for us.  We are not modest.  For we ask of you again once again, [[strikethrough]] still [[/strikethrough]] always believing that you will listen and help.  Men come among us, and we ask of them to help us [[strikethrough]] forward [[/strikethrough]] to advance, but our hearts are not at one with them for we can not help thinking of trickery that thought will not [[strikethrough]] go from [[/strikethrough]] leave us.

2 [[underlined]] (We now come to ask one more favor of you, it is that you speak yet again for us to your people. [[/underlined]] You have been 1 (with [[strikethrough]] in [[/strikethrough]] among us.  Even our children look up to you.  And you know us all. )