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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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• ‟ And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

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• ‟ 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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• ‟ 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.

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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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