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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.
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Given Make Nations Over Said
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding
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
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
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Country Native Sacred World
Each family is a circle, and those family circles connect together and make a community, and the community makes its circle where it lives on the Earth.
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Circle Community Earth Live Together
And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
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Circles Country Inspirational Native
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 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
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
It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Darkness Eye Lost Men
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 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
Know the Power that is Peace.
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Inspirational Life Peace Power
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native

Behold this day. It is yours to make.

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