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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!…
- I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still…
- 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…
- We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the…
- The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.
- The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in…
- Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to…
- The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other. Each family is a circle,…
- All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
- Give me strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is.
- All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.
- I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I…
- And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight,…
- I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and…
- And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a…
- 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…
- I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that…
- But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for…
- And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less…
- 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…
- When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my…
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