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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 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
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
The hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal.
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Animal Country Down Hawk Lament Swoops
Know the Power that is Peace.
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Inspirational Life Peace Power
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
Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us.
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Country Dirty Legend Lying Seldom
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
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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Earth Feeble Grandfather Voice
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
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
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
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
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
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.
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Children Daylight Flowering Hoops Shelter

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