Black Elk Speaks

Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same, and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. Life is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Our teepees are round like the nests of birds, and these are always set in a circle, a nest of many nests, where the Great Spirit meant for us to love our children.

– Black Elk
Black Elk Speaks