The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.

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.

I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.

The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.