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We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.

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Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Steps
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
The center of the universe is everywhere.
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Center Everywhere Universe
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
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Circles Country Native Shapes
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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Animal Great Heart Important Rivers Spirit
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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Color Flames Rainbow
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
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
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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Air Animal Country Native
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
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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Birds Nests Religion Same
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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Boys Girl Girls Learned Warrior
I cured with the power that came through me.
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Advertising Agencies Country Dream Native Power
Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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Behold Inspirational Life
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

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