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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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The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.
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Country Native Sky Song
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
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
It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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Darkness Eye Men
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
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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Birds Nests Religion Same
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Circles Country Native Shapes
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native
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
Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.
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Clouds Mountain Whisper White
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
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
But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.
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Country Darkness Eye Men Native
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.
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Country Honesty Inspirational Native True
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 power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding

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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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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