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A good nation I will make live.
After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.
Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many ... (more Black Elk quotes)
| Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt | |
| The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux (Civilization of the American Indian Series) by Joseph Epes Brown | |
| Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, Twenty-First Century Edition by John G. Neihardt and Vine Deloria Jr. |