And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars.… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other. Each family… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world.… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth. — Black Elk Copy Share
We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things:… — Black Elk Copy Share
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… — Black Elk Copy Share
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles. — Black Elk Copy Share
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them… — Black Elk Copy Share
“And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there.… — Black Elk Copy Share
Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to… — Black Elk Copy Share
The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing… — Black Elk Copy Share
I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose… — Black Elk Copy Share
Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where. — Black Elk Copy Share
I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not… — Black Elk Copy Share
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not… — Black Elk Copy Share
