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The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.

Black Elk

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
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
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
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky
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
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
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
BLACK ELK

Earth Prayer Steps
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
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
It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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Darkness Eye Men
If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.
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Close Doing Everything Foolish
It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Darkness Eye Lost Men
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
When we do understand all this deeply in our hearts, then we will fear, and love, and know the Great Spirit, and then we will be and act and live as the Spirit intends.
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Deeply Great Intends Love Spirit
So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation’s hoop I thrust it in the earth.
BLACK ELK

Earth Red Sticks

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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