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Like prayers around the world, their words or thoughts were and are private and in most cases unrecorded.
Only in the few cases where a native American has dictated his life story to a white writer is there any record of such personal moments. One example is the Crow warrior and minor war chief Two Leggings, who told his life history to William Wildschut of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.
In one passage Two Leggings was undergoing the Crow Sun Dance and he prayed to "The Great Above Person and the Without Fires" (the Great Spirit and the animal, natural and celestial spirits) to pity him, give him bravery and success in battle, as well as long life and health. Such wishes are common to people everywhere.
Later Two Leggings prayed to The Great Above Person for help in the things he would try to do, that he would meet the enemy and have good luck.
In another passage he held a sacred pipe in his hand and prayed that all his future trails would be successful.
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