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If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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might People Vision
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
We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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Great People Spirit Things Understand
Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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Behold Inspirational Life
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
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
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native
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
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
For instance, the coyote is sly, so is the Indian. The eagle is the same. That is why the Indian is always feathered up, he is a relative to the wings of the air.
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Air Country Eagle Feathered Wings
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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Behind Crazy Dreamed Horse Hurt Nothing Real
The center of the universe is everywhere.
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Center Everywhere Universe
I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead – and that one was myself.
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Dead Except Lying People Saws
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
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Anything Country Horse Native Summer Years

If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

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If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

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