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Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

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Black Elk
Age: 86 †
Born: 1863
Born: December 1
Died: 1950
Died: August 19
Heyoka
Medicine Man
Tribal Chief
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Cherokee

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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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There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
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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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It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
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Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.
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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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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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All things are our relatives what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.
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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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To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.
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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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It's in the darkness of men's eyes that they get lost.
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The power of the world always works in circles.
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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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