I was painted red all over with black lightning on my limbs. I wore a black mask, and across my forehead a single eagle feather hung.
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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.Black Elk
Now and then the voices would come back when I was out alone, like someone calling me, but what they wanted me to do I did not know.
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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.
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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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Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.
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I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.
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