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Black Elk

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Black Elk
Age: 86 †
Born: 1863
Born: December 1
Died: 1950
Died: August 19
Heyoka
Medicine Man
Tribal Chief
Beauty
May
Always
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A good nation I will make live.This the nation above has said.They have given me the power to make over.
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After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.
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The power of the world always works in circles.
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You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.
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It's in the darkness of men's eyes that they get lost.
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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
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Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.
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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 legs and arms were badly swollen but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
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Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Know the Power that is Peace.
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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
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And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
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It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions
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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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The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.
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