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So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation’s hoop I thrust it in the earth.

Black Elk

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 Holy Land is everywhere.
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Inspirational Land Life
The visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds.
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Ceremonies Everything Foolish Legend Power
It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
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Darkness Lost Men Vision
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
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
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Circles Country Native People
They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear’s uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
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Dead Lying Men Standing Uncle
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
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
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Inspirational Life Peace
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
The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls.
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Country Native Stars Wind
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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Circles Country Native Strong
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
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Children Country Heart Native
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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Birds Nests Religion Same
Everything tries to be round.
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Education Statistics Trying

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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