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All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.

Black Elk

And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
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Circles Country Native People
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
We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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Great People Spirit Things Understand
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Country Native Sacred World
Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.
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Country Honesty Inspirational Native True
Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world….
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Behind Crazy Dreamed Horse Hurt Nothing Real
Know the Power that is Peace.
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Inspirational Life Peace Power
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
It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death.
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Country Death Native Real Understanding
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Circles Country Native Shapes
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
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
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
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
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

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