All around the circle, feeding on the green, green grass were fat and happy horses... - Black Elk

A good nation I will make live. This the nation above has said. They have given me the power to make over.

I did not see anything to help my people. I could see that the Wasichus [Whites] 'did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation's hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. They had forgotten that the earth was their mother. This could not be better than the old ways of my people.

Behold" he said, "all the wings of the air shall come to you, and they and the winds and the stars shall be like relatives.