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The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.

Black Elk

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
It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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Darkness Eye Men
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Steps
The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to get his prey. The Indian is like that.
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Air Animal Country Native
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
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 cured with the power that came through me.
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Advertising Agencies Country Dream Native Power
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky
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
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
Everything tries to be round.
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Education Statistics Trying
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
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 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
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
Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.
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Eye Giving Hear Quarter Wind

The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.

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