Bless us from the East with the winds that bring and renew life.

Bless us from the South with the warm wet winds that invite growth.

Bless us from the West with the winds that lead us through

this life to the next.

Bless us from the North with the cool winds that calm our passions.

Fill the sky so that we might sense your presence
And bless us from mother earth from which we have come
and
to whom we shall return.

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The phrase MITAKUYE OYASIN---"All Our Relations"--

-has a bigger meaning than just our blood relatives.

MITAKUYE OYASIN means more than our family, more than our Nation,

more even than all humankind.

Our Mother Earth herself, MA-KA UN-CI, is our relation,

and so is Grandfather Sky,

and so are each of the two-legged, the four -leggeds,

the winged nation, the root nation,

and the crawling beings who share the earth with us.

MITAKUYE OYASIN refers to the interconnectness

of all beings and all things.

We are all interconnected. We are all one.

Each time we utter this phrase, MITAKUYE OYASIN,

it would be good to think on this.

MITAKUYE OYASIN