Black Elk Wisdom

I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

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.

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.

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, had brought me back to life.

I cured with the power that came through me.

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

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