All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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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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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When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
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Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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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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I cured with the power that came through me.
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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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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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Everything tries to be round.
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It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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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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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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Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
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