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Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.

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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
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
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Circles Country Native People
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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Earth Feeble Grandfather Voice
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
Everything tries to be round.
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Education Statistics Trying
Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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Behold Inspirational Life
It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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Darkness Eye Men
I cured with the power that came through me.
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Advertising Agencies Country Dream Native Power
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
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native
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
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
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
I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World.
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Cured Outer Power Two Vision World
Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in differing ways.
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Different Garden Men Prayer Spirit Way
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Circles Country Native Shapes

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.

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