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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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I cured with the power that came through me.
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Advertising Agencies Country Dream Native Power
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Darkness Eye Lost Men
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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Circles Country Native Power
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
But the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed.
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Around Islands Legegd Little Smaler
But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
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Beautiful Save Sooner Thinking Wise
We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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Great People Spirit Things Understand
When we do understand all this deeply in our hearts, then we will fear, and love, and know the Great Spirit, and then we will be and act and live as the Spirit intends.
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Deeply Great Intends Love Spirit
Know the Power that is Peace.
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Inspirational Life Peace Power
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.
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Children Daylight Flowering Hoops Shelter
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
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
Everything tries to be round.
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Education Statistics Trying
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
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Country Native Sacred World

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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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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