Black Elk
Black Elk
Heȟáka Sápa was a famous wičháša wakȟáŋand heyoka of the Oglala Lakotawho lived in the present-day United States, primarily South Dakota. He was a second cousin of the war chief Crazy Horse...
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song native-american sky
The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.
moving native-american circles
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.
power native-american-dream advertising-agencies
I cured with the power that came through me.
native-american circles done
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
native-american circles bird
Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
given said nations
A good nation I will make live.This the nation above has said.They have given me the power to make over.
rain clouds grandfather
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.
memories men people
And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
thinking ifs happened
Whether it happened so or not I do not know; but if you think about it you can see that it is true.
depression roots bird
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.
winter men thinking
My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?
trying statistics calculus
Everything tries to be round.
inspirational dance horse
After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.
praying pipe
When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything.