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.
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There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.
You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.