And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.

Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power.

One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.

I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.

Give me strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is.