Quotes Compiled - Native Lakota


In the circle, we are all equal.
There is no one in front of you and there's nobody behind you.
No one is above you; no one is below you.
The circle is sacred because it is designed to create unity.
~~ Lakota Wisdom


The strength of a tree,
the old ones say,
comes not from growing thicker
in the good years when there is water,
but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.
-- Joseph M. Marshall III
The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History


Every life is a circle.
And within every life are smaller circles.
A part of our lives goes full circle every seven  years.
We speak of living in cycles of seven.
-- Barbara Means Adams, Lakota, 1990