INDIAN PRAYER Great Spirit—whose voice I hear in the winds and whose breath gives life to all the world hear me. I am small and weak. I need your strength and wisdom. Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset. Make my hands respect the things you have made. Make me wise so I may understand the things you have taught my people. And my ears sharp to hear your voice, and learn the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock. I seek strength not to be Greater than my brother but to fight my greatest enemy—myself. Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes, so when life fades as the fading sunset my spirit may come to you—without shame.                                        Jerry Running Foxe Footprints in the Sands of Time Arthur House Publishing Bloomington IN 2004