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When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.

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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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Country Honesty Inspirational Native True
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native
When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
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Arm Father Mother Repee Running Sitting Stallone
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
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
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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Circles Country Native Power
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 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
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
We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the trees, the grasses, the rivers, the mountains, and the four-legged and winged peoples; and even more important.
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Animal Great Heart Important Rivers Spirit
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
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding
And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
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Color Flames Rainbow
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Steps
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

When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.

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When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.

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