I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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Now I knew the sixth Grandfather was about to speak, he who was the Spirit of the Earth, and I saw that he was very old, but more as men are old.
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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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Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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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.
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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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