Black Elk

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking…

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had…

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced…

To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my…

I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood…

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace…

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again…

I cured with the power that came through me…

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth…

Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there…

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are…

The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and…

I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good…