You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.

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

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.

Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.

Know the Power that is Peace.

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

Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions