It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power.

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.

It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.

After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.

Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us. But the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed.

And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.