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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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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
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
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Anything Country Horse Native Summer Years
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
The visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds.
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Ceremonies Everything Foolish Legend Power
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
The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls.
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Country Native Stars Wind
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
We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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Great People Spirit Things Understand
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
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
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
They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear’s uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
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Dead Lying Men Standing Uncle
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
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
Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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Behold Inspirational Life

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