The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age,… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me. — 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
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle. — 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
