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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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The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding
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
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
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Circles Country Native Shapes
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
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
The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls.
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Country Native Stars Wind
And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
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Color Flames Rainbow
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Country Native Sacred World
It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Darkness Eye Lost Men
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
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Anything Country Horse Native Summer Years
Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world….
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Behind Crazy Dreamed Horse Hurt Nothing Real
Know the Power that is Peace.
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Inspirational Life Peace Power
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
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
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

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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