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If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

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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
The Holy Land is everywhere.
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Inspirational Land Life
The hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal.
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Animal Country Down Hawk Lament Swoops
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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Circles Country Native Power
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
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
Everything tries to be round.
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Education Statistics Trying
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
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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Given Make Nations Over Said
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
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Steps
If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.
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Close Doing Everything Foolish
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
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
If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.
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Country Everything Foolish Native

If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

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