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Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us and it was very still but there were whispers.

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Black Elk
Age: 86 †
Born: 1863
Born: December 1
Died: 1950
Died: August 19
Heyoka
Medicine Man
Tribal Chief
Three
Staring
Stills
Hills
Still
Suddenly
Nothing
Clouds
Snowy
Great
Mountain
Whispers
World
Middle
Cloud
Alone
Plain
White
Mountains

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