"Then I was standing on the highest
mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I
stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must
live together like one being. And I saw the sacred
hoop of my people was one of the many hoops
that made one circle, wide as daylight and as
starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy... but anywhere is the center of the world."
-- Black Elk
Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, 1863-1950
“She was simply a woman of exemplary physical courage and stamina, who through a remarkable confluence of circumstances contributed to the success of one of the greatest American adventures. . .”
-- Philip Diehl, the former director of the U.S. Mint, told Women’s Wire magazine... from an article about the new gold dollar coin depicting Sacagawea, a very important member of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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