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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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
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.
Black Elk
And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
Black Elk
The fear that was on me so long was gone, and when thunder clouds appeared I was always glad to see them, for they came as relatives now to visit me.
Black Elk
I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
Black Elk
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.
Black Elk
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