I was not brought here from a foreign country and did not come here. I was put here by the creator. The Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and never forgets. Chief Joseph, Nez Perc Be kind to everything that lives. We are all one child, spinning through Mother Sky.
All life is wakan.
So also is everything which exhibits power, whether in action, as the winds and drifting clouds, or in passive endurance, as the boulder by the wayside. For even the commonest sticks and stones have a spiritual essence which must be reverenced as a manifestation of the all-pervading mysterious power that fills the universe. Osage All plants are our brothers and sisters. They talk to us, and if we listen carefully, we can hear them. Every object in the world has a spirit, and that spirit is wakan.