We Sioux spend a lot of time thinking about everyday things which in our minds are mixed up with the spiritual. We see in the world around us many sy….

Indians chase the vision, white men chase the dollar..

If nature puts a burden on a man by making him different, it also gives him a power..

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

Listen to the air. You can hear it, feel it, smell it, taste it. Woniya wakan, the holy air, which renews all by its breath. Woniya wakan, spirit, li….

We have a new joke on the reservation: 'What is cultural deprivation?' Answer: 'Being an upper-middle class white kid living in a split-level suburba….

Men cannot live without mystery. He has a great need of it..

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.….

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

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

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

Love is something that you can leave behind you when you die. It's that powerful..

When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift..

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 concre….

If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of the green frog skin, by peo….