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Brief author info: Black Elk (1863-1950) Oglala Sioux holy man (Hehaka Sapa) As a youth, participated in the Battle of Little Big Horn; later joined Chief Sitting Bull in Canadian exile. By 1930 was the last living human who understood Sioux metaphysics; his teachings were collected in Black Elk Speaks and by anthropologist J. E. Brown.
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It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death. He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.
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