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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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Country Dirty Legend Lying Seldom
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
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
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
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky
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
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
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round.
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Circles Country Native Strong
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
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
It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death.
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Country Death Native Real Understanding
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Steps
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
We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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Great People Spirit Things Understand
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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Earth Feeble Grandfather Voice

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