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The first time I went out to talk to Black Elk about the Ogalala Sioux, I found him sitting alone under a shelter of pine boughs near his log cabin that stands on a barren hill about two miles west of Manderson Post Office.

I wish to express gratitude to my friends among the Ogalala Sioux for helping me in many ways, and for their human kindness, although most of them will never learn that I have done so.

Crazy Horse was an Ogalala too, and I think he was the greatest chief of all.

For a small fraction of our defense budget we could still do something radical in the way of power generation, before the Ogalala aquifer runs dry in a generation or two and the bread basket becomes a dust bowl.

No one following the trail that led past Ogalala Spring could have seen him as he slept among the bushes.

She had on a gray suit, and her thick black hair gleamed with ogalala nut oil or whatever she had washed it with.

They kept on using oil like it was water, kept on using water like the Ogalala Aquifer was going to last forever, kept planting and polluting and populating.

All the rest of the Ogalalas stayed in the country with Crazy Horse, who would have nothing to do with the Wasichus.

Farthest up the stream toward the south were the Hunkpapas, and the Ogalalas were next.

I learned that my own band, the Ogalalas, had been taken back to the country where we are now, and I decided that I ought to go there and perform my duty.

It was that I should do my duty among the Ogalalas with the power they had brought me in the vision.

There came to us some Wasichus who wanted a band of Ogalalas for a big show that the other Pahuska had.

So these three men had made the long journey west, and in the fall after I came home, they returned to the Ogalalas with wonderful things to tell.

Many of the Brules came along when I came back, and joined the Ogalalas in the dancing on Wounded Knee.