And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
BLACK ELKIt’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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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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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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Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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Know the Power that is Peace.
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We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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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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Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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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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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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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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The hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal.
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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
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