- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
- Drought
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- Nov 07, 2020