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Show SOUVENIR OF WOUNDED KNEE. Letter Written by Princ.ua Nellie to Major J. II. Park, of Port Douglm. The following letter was written by Princess Xollio, daughter of Young-Man-Afraid-of His Horsos, to Maj. J. B. Parke of the Sixteenth lufantry while encamped at Pine Kidge. The epistle, which the major values, shows the characteristic manner of Indian expression expres-sion of thought and ideas. It is written with a pencil and the chirography is excellent: Friend I am in hurry to write to you this morning. If they bring the things that you (Ming to give us to eat you must give us soon voti said we going home todnv so we are hurry. I know what I said that for. When they were tight that time all our childrens that been to school a' Pine Kidge they .-aid all gone to where tight so we want to go home and get our children. I am the great father his sold er so I want lo know what they were doing at home. I want to tell you what we do where we I went. I know that you have one man talk Sioux he always tell wrong thing so 1 cannot tell you iinyihing If you see this letter you must give ns t l-iiigs In hurry. We lost four horse hut we didn t look for them yne of them is b iy hor.-e branded O and blue horse branded 10 and two or them they don't branded them one Is yellow and one Is blue, and we didn't come liack with to wagon three mans and two woman tout three children we didn't come tvick wiih them. That Is all I hae to say. Chief White Cow. |