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Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in…
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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…
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I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age,…
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Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we…
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We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within…
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Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of…
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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…
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The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars.…
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Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of…
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Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and…
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But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit,…
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My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything;…
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When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the west, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the…
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This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time…
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Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.
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