Black Elk

I cured with the power that came through me. ↗

— Black Elk

#came #cured #i #me #through

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking. ↗

— Black Elk

#sometimes #than #waking #wiser

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it. ↗

— Black Elk

#i #might #people #saved #strength

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. ↗

— Black Elk

#find #gift #good #i #know

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was. ↗

— Black Elk

#how #read #see #will #written

So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth. ↗

— Black Elk

#center #earth #hoop #i #nation

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. ↗

— Black Elk

#bear #been #brought #chaser #days

To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see. ↗

— Black Elk

#had #i #part #people #perform

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me. ↗

— Black Elk

#clouds #come #drought #earth #gave

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

— Black Elk

#first #four #heard #i #i think