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The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to get his prey. The Indian is like that.

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Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
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Children Country Heart Native
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
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
It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Darkness Eye Lost Men
Know the Power that is Peace.
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Inspirational Life Peace Power
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
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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Dream Wake Up Waking
We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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Great People Spirit Things Understand
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
He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.
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Compared Everything Know Prepared World
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
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.
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Children Daylight Flowering Hoops Shelter
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Steps
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Country Native Sacred World
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
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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Birds Nests Religion Same

The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to get his prey. The Indian is like that.

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The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to get his prey. The Indian is like that.

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