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I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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might People Vision
Know the Power that is Peace.
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Inspirational Life Peace Power
But the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed.
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Around Islands Legegd Little Smaler
Everything tries to be round.
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Education Statistics Trying
The visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds.
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Ceremonies Everything Foolish Legend Power
And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
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Circles Country Inspirational Native
I cured with the power that came through me.
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Advertising Agencies Country Dream Native Power
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
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Circles Country Moving Native
I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
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Good Memory People Some Vision
Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in differing ways.
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Different Garden Men Prayer Spirit Way
When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
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Arm Father Mother Repee Running Sitting Stallone
When we do understand all this deeply in our hearts, then we will fear, and love, and know the Great Spirit, and then we will be and act and live as the Spirit intends.
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Deeply Great Intends Love Spirit
I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
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Summer Thinking Years
We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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Great People Spirit Things Understand
It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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Darkness Eye Men
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding

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