The Holy Land is everywhere.
BLACK ELKThe 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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All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.
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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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Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Everything tries to be round.
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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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The hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal.
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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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It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
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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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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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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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I cured with the power that came through me.
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The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.
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