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Black Elk
 
Date of birth: 1863
Date of death: 17 August 1950
Country Of Origin: America
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    Black Elk (Hehaka Sapa) (c. December 1863 – August 17 or August 19, 1950 (sources differ)) was a famous Wichasha Wakan (Medicine Man or Holy Man) of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux). He participated at about the age of twelve in the Battle of Little Big Horn of 1876, and was wounded in the massacre that occurred at Wounded Knee in 1890. Black Elk married his first wife, Katie War Bonnett, in 1892. She became a Catholicism, and all t .... (More...)
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" A good nation I will make live. "

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

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" 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; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me. "

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

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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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" And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me. "

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" And when I breathed, my breath was lightning. "

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" 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. "

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" But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all. "

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" Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. "

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" I cured with the power that came through me. "

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" I had never told any one all of it, and even until now nobody ever heard it all. "

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" 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. "

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" 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 these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished. "

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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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