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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.

Black Elk

The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
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Childhood Everything Life Moves Person
Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.
BLACK ELK

Country Honesty Inspirational Native True
Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us.
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Country Dirty Legend Lying Seldom
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’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Darkness Eye Lost Men
The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.
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Circles Community Together
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
BLACK ELK

Earth Prayer Sacred
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
If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.
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Close Doing Everything Foolish
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
Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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Behold Inspirational Life
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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Dream Wake Up Waking
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky
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
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
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

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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