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Black Elk Quote: “So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation’s hoop I thrust it in the earth.”

51. “So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation’s hoop I thrust it in the earth.”

Black Elk Quote: “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.”

52. “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.”

Black Elk Quote: “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.”

53. “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.”

Black Elk Quote: “I cured with the power that came through me.”

54. “I cured with the power that came through me.”

Black Elk Quote: “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.”

55. “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.”

Black Elk Quote: “Everything tries to be round.”

56. “Everything tries to be round.”

Black Elk Quote: “To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.”

57. “To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.”

Black Elk Quote: “And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people’s dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.”

58. “And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people’s dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.”

Black Elk Quote: “After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.”

59. “After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.”

Black Elk Quote: “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.”

60. “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.”

Black Elk Quote: “You have noticed that the truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping. When people are already in despair, maybe the laughing face is better for them; and when they feel too good and are too sure of being safe, maybe the weeping face is better for them to see.”

61. “You have noticed that the truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping. When people are already in despair, maybe the laughing face is better for them; and when they feel too good and are too sure of being safe, maybe the weeping face is better for them to see.”

Black Elk Quote: “I stood upon the highest mountain of the world and I knew more than I saw, I understood more than I knew, because I was seeing in a sacred manner. And what I saw were the hoops of all the nations interlocking in on great circle.”

62. “I stood upon the highest mountain of the world and I knew more than I saw, I understood more than I knew, because I was seeing in a sacred manner. And what I saw were the hoops of all the nations interlocking in on great circle.”

Black Elk Quote: “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.”

63. “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.”

Black Elk Quote: “I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.”

64. “I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.”

Black Elk Quote: “I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.”

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

Black Elk Quote: “I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.”

66. “I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.”

Black Elk Quote: “I was mad, because I was thinking of the women and the little children running down there, all scared and out of breath. These Wasichus wanted it, and they came to get it, and we gave it to them.”

67. “I was mad, because I was thinking of the women and the little children running down there, all scared and out of breath. These Wasichus wanted it, and they came to get it, and we gave it to them.”

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