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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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It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Darkness Eye Lost Men
Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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Behold Inspirational Life
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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Earth Feeble Grandfather Voice
And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
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Circles Country Inspirational Native
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
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 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
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native
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
Know the Power that is Peace.
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Inspirational Life Peace Power
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 power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding
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
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
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
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
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
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
I cured with the power that came through me.
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Advertising Agencies Country Dream Native Power
Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions
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Ignorance Men Passion
Everything tries to be round.
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Education Statistics Trying
Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
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Children Country Heart 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
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
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
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Circles Country Moving Native
I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
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Country Men Native People Thinking
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

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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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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