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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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For instance, the coyote is sly, so is the Indian. The eagle is the same. That is why the Indian is always feathered up, he is a relative to the wings of the air.
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Air Country Eagle Feathered Wings
But the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed.
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Around Islands Legegd Little Smaler
I cured with the power that came through me.
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Advertising Agencies Country Dream Native Power
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
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
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Circles Country Native Shapes
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
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
Know the Power that is Peace.
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Inspirational Life Peace Power
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
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
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
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Inspirational Life Peace
It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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Darkness Eye Men
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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Circles Country Native Power
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
The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.
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Circles Community Together

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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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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