Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land of their birth, while they are furnished with little material on the people and institutions that are truly American.

White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.

We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth was beautiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery.

Certain small ways and observances sometimes have connection with large and more profound ideas.

Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept the Lakota safe among them. And so close did some of the Lakotas come to their feathered and furred friends that in true brotherhood they spoke a common tongue.

After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery.

It is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny.