 You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from...  James Welch: A Critical Companiondoor Mary Jane Lupton - 2004 - 164 pagina’sGeen voorbeeld beschikbaar - Over dit boek
 | James Stuart Olson, Raymond Wilson - 1984 - 258 pagina’s
...unforgiveable transgressions. Describing the need to identify with the tribe, Black Elk wrote that in the old days when we were a strong and happy people,...long as the hoop was unbroken, the people flourished. | *N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn (New York: Harper and Row, 1968), 36-37. tQuoted in Shirley... | |
 | Howard Nelson - 1984 - 338 pagina’s
...and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people,...long as the hoop was unbroken, the people flourished. The flowering tree at the living center of the hoop, and the circle of the four quarters nourished... | |
 | Kenneth Lincoln - 1985 - 352 pagina’s
...all tribes under the sky and within the earth. You have noticed that everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people,...long as the hoop was unbroken, the people flourished. The flowering tree was the living center of the hoop, and the circle of the four quarters nourished... | |
 | Black Elk - 1979 - 318 pagina’s
...and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people,...long as the hoop was unbroken, the people flourished. The flowering tree was the living center of the hoop, and the circle of the four quarters nourished... | |
 | Sharon O'Brien - 1993 - 372 pagina’s
...almost daily if necessary to stay in contact with the buffalo and other game on which it depended. Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The... | |
 | Georges E. Sioui - 1995 - 156 pagina’s
...because the power of the universe always acts according to circles and all things tend to be round: In the old days, when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came from the sacred circle of the nation and as long as the circle remained whole, the people flourished.... | |
 | Alice O. Howell - 1993 - 302 pagina’s
...the small white square of my paper napkin. For an instant, it bore the imprint of the face of God. Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and 1 have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The... | |
 | J. M. G. Le Clézio - 1993 - 244 pagina’s
...the universe acts according to circles and because all things tend to become round. In ancient times, when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came from the sacred circle of the nation, and as long as it wasn't broken, our people remained prosperous... | |
 | Marcia Ascher - 1994 - 218 pagina’s
...and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people,...long as the hoop was unbroken, the people flourished. The flowering tree was the living center of the hoop, and the circle of the four quarters nourished... | |
 | Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald - 1994 - 276 pagina’s
...and that is because the power of the World always works in circles and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people,...long as the hoop was unbroken, the people flourished. The flowering tree was the living centre of the hoop, and the circle of the four quarters nourished... | |
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