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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

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
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding
It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power.
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Earth Order Power Vision
Each family is a circle, and those family circles connect together and make a community, and the community makes its circle where it lives on the Earth.
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Circle Community Earth Live Together
Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.
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Eye Giving Hear Quarter Wind
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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Earth Feeble Grandfather Voice
But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.
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Country Darkness Eye Men Native
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky
The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.
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Country Native Sky Song
Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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Behold Inspirational Life
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Circles Country Native Shapes
It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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Darkness Eye Men
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
Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions
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Ignorance Men Passion
They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear’s uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
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Dead Lying Men Standing Uncle

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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