To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.
Black ElkLike the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.
Black ElkI did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.
Black Elk