You can pray for whatever you want, but it is always best to pray for others, not for yourself.

To our way of thinking the Indians' symbol is the circle, the hoop. Nature wants to be round. The bodies of human beings and animals have no corners. With us, the circle stands for togetherness of people who sit with one another around the campfire, relatives and friends united in peace while the sacred pipe passes from hand to hand. To us this is beautiful and fitting, symbol and reality at the same time, expressing the harmony of life and nature.

We all come from the same root, but the leaves are all different.

Tell the people not to cry. Tell them to be happy.

Laughter - that is something very sacred especially for us Indians.

Our beliefs are rooted deep in our earth, no matter what you have done to it and how much of it you have paved over. And if you leave all that concrete unwatched for a year or two, our plants, the native Indian plants, will pierce that concrete and push up through it.

You can pray for whatever you want, but it is always best to pray for others, not for yourself.