Black Elk Earth Quotations

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.

As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.

Give me strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is.

It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power.

Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.

Then she gave something to the chief, and it was a pipe with a bison calf carved on one side to mean the earth that bears and feeds us, and with twelve eagle feathers hanging from the stem to mean the sky and the twelve moons, and these were tied with a grass that never breaks,