And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
BLACK ELKSometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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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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It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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When we do understand all this deeply in our hearts, then we will fear, and love, and know the Great Spirit, and then we will be and act and live as the Spirit intends.
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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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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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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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Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
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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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I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World.
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Everything tries to be round.
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Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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The Holy Land is everywhere.
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Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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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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