"But if the vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet; for such things are of the spirit, and i…"

"A long time ago my father told me what his father told him, that there was once a Lakota holy man, called Drinks Wate…"

"Behold," he said, "all the wings of the air shall come to you, and they and the winds and the stars shall be like rel…"

"Flames were rising from the waters and in the flames a blue man lived."

"Then a song of power came to me and I sang it there in the midst of that terrible place where I was. It went like this:"

"Then a Voice said: "Behold this day, for it is yours to make. Now you shall stand upon the center of the earth to see…"

"Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. …"

"My bay had lightning stripes all over him and his mane was cloud. And when I breathed, my breath was lightning."

"Then I saw ahead the rainbow flaming above the tepee of the Six Grandfathers, built and roofed with cloud and sewed w…"

"They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing …"