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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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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I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

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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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And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.

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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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I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

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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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Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

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They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.

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