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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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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning 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
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
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
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
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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Circles Country Native Power
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 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
Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.
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Clouds Mountain Whisper White
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 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
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Steps
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
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
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
But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.
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Country Darkness Eye Men Native

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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