When in the Circle, no one is in front of you. The Sacred Circle is designed to create unity.
The Hoop of Life is also a circle. It is this
completeness of Life that must be respected in
order to bring about health on this planet. until it fills the whole lake.
Dave Chief, Oglala Lakota
No one is behind you.
No one is above you.
No one is below you.
On this hoop there is a place for every species,
every race,
every tree, and every plant.
To understand each other,
as the ripples when a stone is tossed into the waters,
the Circle starts small and grows...