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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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Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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Behold Inspirational Life
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
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native
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
I cured with the power that came through me.
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Advertising Agencies Country Dream Native Power
Everything tries to be round.
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Education Statistics Trying
The Great Spirit is everywhere; He hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.
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Country Heart Mind Native Voice
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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Compared Everything Know Prepared World
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
Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.
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Country Honesty Inspirational Native True
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
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Inspirational Life Peace
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
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky
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
If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.
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Country Everything Foolish Native
For instance, the coyote is sly, so is the Indian. The eagle is the same. That is why the Indian is always feathered up, he is a relative to the wings of the air.
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Air Country Eagle Feathered Wings

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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