"This is my prayer that, through our sacred pipe and through this book in which I shall explain what our pipe really is, peace may come to those peoples who can understand, an understanding which must be of the heart and not of the head alone." ~Black Elk"Most people call it a "peace pipe" yet now there is no peace on earth or even between neighbors and I have been told that it has been a long time since there has been peace in the world. I have wished to make this book through no other desire than to help my people in understanding the greatness and truth of our own tradition and also to help in bringing peace upon the earth, not only among men but within men and between the whole creation." ~Black Elk Recorded and edited by Joseph Epes Brown, these are the mans own words and his exact accounting of the use of the pipe.
