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Know the Power that is Peace.

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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
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding
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
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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Birds Nests Religion Same
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
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
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 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
Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions
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Ignorance Men Passion
It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.
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Bird Bloom Depression Roots Singing
When we do understand all this deeply in our hearts, then we will fear, and love, and know the Great Spirit, and then we will be and act and live as the Spirit intends.
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Deeply Great Intends Love Spirit
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 think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
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Country Men Native People Thinking
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native
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
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

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