We don't build churches; we pray outside, in the Natural World.

"Every good thought is a prayer. That is what we believe. That is why we don't have church. Life is church, the Universe is our temple. To be conscious of the well-being of the Little People, that's a form of prayer . . . We don't build churches, and go inside to pray one day a week. We pray outside, in the Natural World. And our entire life is an act of prayer, because there is Holiness in all things in the Natural World here on Grandmother Earth."

Russell Means
Oglala Lakota

Photos: Golden Banner, Bear Lodge, and the Badlands; Devil's Tower National Monument (WY) and Badlands National Park, SD; May 16, 2015