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It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.

Black Elk

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.
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Country Dirty Legend Lying Seldom
The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.
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Boys Girl Girls Learned Warrior
The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
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Childhood Everything Life Moves Person
It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
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Darkness Lost Men Vision
We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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Great People Spirit Things Understand
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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Birds Nests Religion Same
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Country Native Sacred World
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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Dream Wake Up Waking
It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.
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Bird Bloom Depression Roots Singing
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
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
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
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
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding
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
Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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Behold Inspirational Life

It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.

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