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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 and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.

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Black Elk

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 was Heyoka and a second cousin of Crazy Horse. Black Elk participated, at about the age of twelve, in the Battle of Little Big Horn of 1876, and was injured in the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890

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    hoor me, vier kwartalen van de wereld - een familielid dat ik ben geef me de kracht om op de zachte aarde te lopen, een familielid van alles wat is geef me de ogen om te zien en de kracht om te begrijpen, zodat ik mag zijn zoals jij. alleen met jouw kracht kan ik de wind trotseren.

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