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A good nation I will make live.This the nation above has said.They have given me the power to make over.

Black Elk

It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Darkness Eye Lost Men
I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead – and that one was myself.
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Dead Except Lying People Saws
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.
BLACK ELK

Different Garden Men Prayer Spirit Way
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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Dream Wake Up Waking
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
BLACK ELK

Country Native Sacred World
And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
BLACK ELK

Color Flames Rainbow
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round.
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Circles Country Native Strong
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.
BLACK ELK

Circles Country Inspirational Native
So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation’s hoop I thrust it in the earth.
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Earth Red Sticks
Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us.
BLACK ELK

Country Dirty Legend Lying Seldom
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
Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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Behold Inspirational Life
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding
The hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal.
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Animal Country Down Hawk Lament Swoops
I cured with the power that came through me.
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Advertising Agencies Country Dream Native Power
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
BLACK ELK

Inspirational Life Sky

A good nation I will make live.This the nation above has said.They have given me the power to make over.

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