"We Indians live in a world of symbols and images where the spiritual and the commonplace are one. To us [symbols] are part of nature, part of ourselves, even little insects like ants and grasshoppers. We try to understand them not with the head but with the heart, and we need no more than a hint to give us meaning." —John Fire Lame Deer, (died 1976) Miniconjou Lakota, Storyteller, rebel, medicine man