Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
BLACK ELKWe should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
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The center of the universe is everywhere.
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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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I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the trees, the grasses, the rivers, the mountains, and the four-legged and winged peoples; and even more important.
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And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
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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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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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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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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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Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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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.
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Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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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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