~Black Elk Speaks~

The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests,
plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that
fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once
grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo
belonged….

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.

Black Elk, Oglala Sioux Holy Man
1863-1950