“And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
“But now that I can see it all as from a lonely hilltop, I know it was the story of a mighty… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
“Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
“I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the west, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of things. That is the real world… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
“I knew that the real was yonder and that the darkened dream of it was here.” — 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 Image
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
