Round House

Great quotation (thanks to Round Houses Blog)

We made these gray houses that you see, and they are square. It is a bad way to live, for there can be no power in a square.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles. The earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. 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. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood. Our teepees were round like the nests of birds and these were always set in a circle.

The White people have put us in these square boxes. Our power is gone and we are dying.

- Black Elk