Black Elk Quotes

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

Whether it happened so or not I do not know; but if you think about it you can see that it is true.

A good nation I will make live.This the nation above has said.They have given me the power to make over.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The Holy Land is everywhere