You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.

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

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.