Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1987
Abstract
Everything the Power of the World docs is done in a circle. The sky is round like a hall, and [ have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs i, the same religion ;1S ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon docs the same, and both arc round. Even the seasons form a great ,circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Our teepees were round like the nests of birds, and these were always set in a circle, the nation's hoop, a nest of many nests, where the Great Spirit meant for us to hatch our children. But the Wasichus have put us in these square boxes.-Rlack Elk Speaks
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 7:2 (Spring 1987). Copyright © 1987 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.