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

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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native
It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Darkness Eye Lost Men
The Holy Land is everywhere.
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Inspirational Land Life
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
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
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
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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Darkness Lost Men Vision
Everything tries to be round.
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Education Statistics Trying
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
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Country Native Sacred World
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
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
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
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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Dream Wake Up Waking
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round.
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Circles Country Native Strong
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred

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

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