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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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All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky
The Holy Land is everywhere.
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Inspirational Land Life
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
But the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed.
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Around Islands Legegd Little Smaler
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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Birds Nests Religion Same
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
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
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
Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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Behold Inspirational Life
Everything tries to be round.
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Education Statistics Trying
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
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
For instance, the coyote is sly, so is the Indian. The eagle is the same. That is why the Indian is always feathered up, he is a relative to the wings of the air.
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Air Country Eagle Feathered Wings
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding
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
Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in differing ways.
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Different Garden Men Prayer Spirit Way

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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