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All things are our relatives what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.

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Black Elk
Age: 86 †
Born: 1863
Born: December 1
Died: 1950
Died: August 19
Heyoka
Medicine Man
Tribal Chief
Relatives
Everything
Really
Things
Ahimsa

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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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May you always walk in Beauty.
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