Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.

My bay had lightning stripes all over him and his mane was cloud. And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

'Behold' he said, 'all the wings of the air shall come to you, and they and the winds and the stars shall be like relatives.'

Then the bay horse spoke to me again and said: 'See how your horses all come dancing!' I looked, and there were horses, horses everywhere - a whole skyfull of …