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Native Quotes by Black Elk
- Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.
- 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…
- Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is…
- Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
- But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is…
- 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…
- If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do…
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