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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 center of the universe is everywhere.
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Center Everywhere Universe
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 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
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky
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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Good Memory People Some Vision
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
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
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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Boys Girl Girls Learned Warrior
Everything tries to be round.
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Education Statistics Trying
Know the Power that is Peace.
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Inspirational Life Peace Power
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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Earth Order Power Vision
The hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal.
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Animal Country Down Hawk Lament Swoops
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
The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.
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Circles Community Together
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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Air Animal Country Native
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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Country Darkness Eye Men Native

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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