- The word Lakota means "considered friends" or "alliance of friends" and denotes the union of seven Native American tribes who believe their home in the Black Hills of South Dakota is sacred. Coyotl, which means "little wolf", is an old Spanish name for Coyote, who is legend to be the trickster and could change his physical appearance.
In the red stained dirt
where the Lakota spider hunts,
calloused feet dance and pound the earth
coal black and rough. I sit atop the rocks
hunched over from thirst, exhausted and praying as I
stair into the eastern wind
where the mountains give birth to the sun.
My brother, the shy little wolf, coyotl in his masks, whose work
never ends, calls out in the early morning
soft and still.
My arms reach to the wind that falls
from the great whispering spirit, who
wanders the earth painting the skys and tall cliffs and
prairies, bursting water from mountain springs
returning with a whisper to the sea.
My voice cries out in song
from distant memory to the one from whom the spirit came
to the one who creates; and I weep. For I am
the unnamed sage, who is content with nothing
but the sound of the whispering spirit and the old red earth.
My eyes in constant wonder and my heart at peace
filled with the sadness in life
I believe, only joy can bring.
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