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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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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
He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.
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Compared Everything Know Prepared World
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
The center of the universe is everywhere.
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Center Everywhere Universe
The Holy Land is everywhere.
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Inspirational Land Life
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Circles Country Native Shapes
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
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
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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Dream Wake Up Waking
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding
It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power.
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Earth Order Power Vision
But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
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Beautiful Save Sooner Thinking Wise
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
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Country Native Sacred World
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
When we do understand all this deeply in our hearts, then we will fear, and love, and know the Great Spirit, and then we will be and act and live as the Spirit intends.
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Deeply Great Intends Love Spirit
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
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
Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world….
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Behind Crazy Dreamed Horse Hurt Nothing Real
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
And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
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Circles Country Inspirational Native
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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Circles Country Native Power
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Steps
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
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

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