This old Dakota wiseman explains the use of the varied forms of life in Indian worship just prior to 1890. The pursuit of unity in life is discernible throughout.
"Everything as it moves, now and then, here and there, makes stops. The bird as it stops in one place to make its nest, and in another to rest in its flight. A man when he goes forth stops when he wills. So the God has stopped. The sun, which is so bright and beautiful, is one place where he has stopped. The moon, the stars, the winds he has been with. The trees, the animals, are all where he has stopped, and the Indian thinks of these places and sends his prayers there to reach the place where the God has stopped and win help and a blessing."
Source: TOUCH THE EARTH - A Self-Potrait of Indian Existence, Compiled by T.C.McLuhan, A Touchstone Book, Published by Simon and Schuster, 1971 (A brief piece on the native Indians of America, their life and history)
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