After The Horse Dance Was Over, It

Like The Grasses Showing Tender Faces To Each Other, Thus Should We Do, For This Was The Wish Of The Grandfathers Of The World.

We Should Understand Well That All Things Are The Work Of The Great Spirit. We Should Know The Great Spirit Is Within All Things: The Trees, The Grasses, The Rivers, The Mountains, And The Four-legged And Winged Peoples; And Even More Important, We Should Understand That The Great Spirit Is Also Above All These Things And Peoples. When We Do Understand All This Deeply In Our Hearts, Then We Will Fear, And Love, And Know The Great Spirit, And Then We Will Be And Act And Live As The Spirit Intends.

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.

Birds Make Their Nest In Circles, For Theirs Is The Same Religion As Ours.

It Is Good To Have A Reminder Of Death Before Us, For It Helps Us To Understand The Impermanence Of Life On This Earth, And This Understanding May Aid Us In Preparing For Our Own Death. He Who Is Well Prepared Is He Who Knows That He Is Nothing Compared With Wakan-tanka, Who Is Everything; Then He Knows That World Which Is Real.