The Hill News

The great anthropologist Joseph Campbell said one of the most significant moments in the spirit life of America was when the Lakota shaman, Black Elk, turning and pointing north to northwest, said to the poet Flaming Rainbow, “There is the center of the world.” Then he said, “But wherever you are is the center of the world.” He might have been right the first time, because Black Elk’s Dakotas are awakening. Just as the rest of us up here in the Northeast seem to be falling into a deep post-industrial slumber.

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