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I cured with the power that came through me.

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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
The Holy Land is everywhere.
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Inspirational Land Life
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
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 cured with the power that came through me.
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Advertising Agencies Country Dream Native Power
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
The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.
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Circles Community Together
Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
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Fog Glowing Meaning Talk Thinking Words
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
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
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
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
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
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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Circles Country Native Power
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
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

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