“[The Sun Dancers] also put rabbit skins on their arms and legs, for the rabbit represents humility, because he is quiet and soft and not self-asserting — a quality which we must all possess when we go to the center of the world.”

—  Black Elk

The Sacred Pipe (1953)

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Oglala Lakota leader 1863–1950

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