NAA MS 3334
With interlinear translations, from Hupa kinyan [--- Flying] and Inyan mani [Walking Stone] to President Polk. Manuscript document, 2 pages including free English translation by Drift with the assistance of Ben McBride, Sr. Manuscript document, 2 pages. Letter from Drift to --- Welch, regarding translation. Autograph letter signed, 1 page. Unsigned memo to J.P. Harrington, Bureau of American Ethnology, enclosing the above. May 20, 1935. Typescript document, 1 page.
Manuscript 3334, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Original of the Dakota letter, enclosed in a letter from Stephen R. Riggs to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, December 22, 1847, is in the U.S. National Archives, Record Group 75, Letters Received by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, St. Peter's Agency, 1848, D. no. R 138.