The center of the universe is everywhere.
BLACK ELKEverything 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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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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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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All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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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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He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.
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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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The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.
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Everything tries to be round.
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Know the Power that is Peace.
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It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power.
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The hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal.
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And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
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The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.
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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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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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