Black Elk
Found 8 thoughts of Black Elk
I was sixteen years old and more, and I had not yet done anything the Grandfathers wanted me to do, but they had been helping me.
Black Elk
Now I knew the sixth Grandfather was about to speak, he who was the Spirit of the Earth, and I saw that he was very old, but more as men are old.
Black Elk
When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
Black Elk
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
My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?
Black Elk
I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.
Black Elk
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
Black Elk
So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.
Black Elk
