Like the buffalo, Looking Horse explained the Lakota stood into the wind, regardless of how cold it was. When the buffalo was gone, the Lakota were forced to eat cattle, which stands with its rear to the wind. Our elders say that's why our way of life is backwards now,'' he said, smiling for the first time. In 1990, Looking Horse said the spirit of the buffalo came back, but only after four years of walking, and of mending. In 1987, '88, '89 and '90, we took the same route as Chief Big Foot took to Wounded Knee trying to mend the hoop,'' he said.
People are overwhelmed.
The kids know something is happening. We're doing a lot of healing,'' he added. We are starting to see an awareness of the prophesies,'' Looking Horse said. Today there is so much confusion. Kids have lost their identity.