Black Elk (Leader)
December 1, 1863 - August 19, 1950
A good nation I will make live.
And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
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.
I cured with the power that came through me.
If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
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.
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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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