Purification will come
and grandma will cradle us
in her arms
    and wipe away our tears
and grandpa will walk among us.
    It will be this generation
you people
    will make it reality
and the hoop
will come together again.

–Mitakuye Oyasin

Peace comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the centre of the Universe dwells Wakan Tanka (the Great Spirit), and that this centre is really everywhere, it is within each of us.

–Black Elk

One rain won’t make a crop.

–Creole Proverb