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Behold this day. It is yours to make.

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
Behold
Inspirational
Make
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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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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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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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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 a strange power glowing in my body but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
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It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.
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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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The Holy Land is everywhere.
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May you always walk in Beauty.
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One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.
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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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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 I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
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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 a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
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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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Know the Power that is Peace.
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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 sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
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Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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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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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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Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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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 would be foolish.
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