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You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.

Wovoka

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Wovoka
Age: 76 †
Born: 1856
Born: January 1
Died: 1932
Died: September 20
Religious Leader
Smith Valley
Nevada
Dies
Soil
Mother
Ground
Plow
Earth
Asking
Bosom
Take
Tears
Bosoms
Cutting
Knife
Rest
Tear
Shall
Knives
Asks
Native

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