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Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

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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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Clouds Mountain Whisper White
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
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 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
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
The center of the universe is everywhere.
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Center Everywhere Universe
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
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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Eye Giving Hear Quarter Wind
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
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
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 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
I cured with the power that came through me.
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Advertising Agencies Country Dream Native Power
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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Summer Thinking Years
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 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

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

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