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Behold this day. It is yours to make.

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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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Behind Crazy Dreamed Horse Hurt Nothing Real
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
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
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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Circles Country Native Power
It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Darkness Eye Lost Men
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
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
We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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Great People Spirit Things Understand
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 hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal.
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Animal Country Down Hawk Lament Swoops
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
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
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Steps
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native
It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.
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Bird Bloom Depression Roots Singing
When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
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Arm Father Mother Repee Running Sitting Stallone

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