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I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

Black Elk

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
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 Holy Land is everywhere.
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Inspirational Land Life
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
The Great Spirit is everywhere; He hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.
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Country Heart Mind Native Voice
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
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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Circles Country Native Power
So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation’s hoop I thrust it in the earth.
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Earth Red Sticks
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
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Anything Country Horse Native Summer Years
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
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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Dead Except Lying People Saws
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
Everything tries to be round.
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Education Statistics Trying
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Steps
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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Birds Nests Religion Same
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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Earth Feeble Grandfather Voice

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