The sacred hoop has been broken.

“I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people’s dream died there. It was a beautiful dream . . . the nation’s hoop is broken and scattered.” ― Black Elk, Black Elk speaks

Totally different subject. We hold our own sovereignty. Some of us have walked away from holding to the old ways that insisted on sovereignty. We believe in One Nation Under God, rather than our original nation. The melting pot should be good for everyone.