"God made everything so simple. Our lives are very simple . . . We don't need your church. We have the Black Hills for our church. And we don't need your Bible. We have the wind and the rain and the stars for our Bible. The world is an open Bible for us. We've studied it for millions of years. We've learned that everything God made is living. Even the rocks are alive. When we use them in our sweat ceremony we talk to them . . . and they talk back to us. The Universe is the tabernacle of God. When the wind blows, that's the breath of God. When you or I breathe, that's also the breath of God."
Noble Red Man (Mathew King), Lakota elder
Photo: My tent with Bear Lodge in the background, Devil's Tower National Monument, WY; May 19, 2012. Bear Lodge is a part of the Bearlodge Mountains, which are a northern extension of the Black Hills.
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