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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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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
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
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding
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
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Country Native Sacred World
It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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Darkness Eye Men
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
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
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky
They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear’s uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
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Dead Lying Men Standing Uncle
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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Birds Nests Religion Same
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
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
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native
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
Everything tries to be round.
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Education Statistics Trying

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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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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