The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to get his prey. The Indian is like that. The hawk swoo….

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 ….

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles..

After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked..

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man,….

I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lyin….

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; ….

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and ….

The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make….

The Great Spirit is everywhere; He hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice..

Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see ….

Give me strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is..

The Holy Land is everywhere..

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning..

And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me..

One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us..

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding..

I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he h….

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking..

We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the trees, the gras….

Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many thi….