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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.

Black Elk

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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might People Vision
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
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
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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Earth Feeble Grandfather Voice
Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.
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Clouds Mountain Whisper White
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
I cured with the power that came through me.
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Advertising Agencies Country Dream Native Power
The visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds.
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Ceremonies Everything Foolish Legend Power
Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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Behold Inspirational Life
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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Birds Nests Religion Same
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
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Steps
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
It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Darkness Eye Lost Men
I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World.
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Cured Outer Power Two Vision World
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Circles Country Native Shapes

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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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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