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.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.

Every place is the center of the world.

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.

As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.

Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.

It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.