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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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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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Childhood Everything Life Moves Person
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky
The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.
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Country Native Sky Song
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
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
The center of the universe is everywhere.
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Center Everywhere Universe
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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Circles Country Native Power
So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation’s hoop I thrust it in the earth.
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Earth Red Sticks
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Circles Country Native Shapes
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
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
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Steps
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
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
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
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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Circles Country Native Strong

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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