To all my relatives,  my name is Wakiyan Ho Wast’e’, Good Voice Thunder, let my song be my prayer. In a world of confusion a place without respect and no honor for life, we must return to our spiritual leaders, our holy men, our holy women, we must return to our spiritual teachers. Who are our holy men? They are our spiritual guides, our ministers, our elders. 

We need our holy men to reconcile us to our core teachings of our culture with dreams and visions guided by the Holy Spirit, our men of old received teachings of life’s circle. With their prayers of faith and spiritual guidance is what leads us to our way of life, our culture.

We must return to our spiritual leaders. Then we will be reconciled with our culture, with our songs, with our teachings, with one another, and most of all with the Forever Spirit, our Father. What good is our culture, our drums, our songs, our dance, our prayers, our languages, our churches, our ceremonies without the teaching of our holy men? What good are our schools, our governments, our businesses, our earth, our reservations, without life’s valuable teachers, our holy men? 

Let us remember where our tribes, our clans, our families, and our culture came from and the valuable teachings that came with them. Let us not take for granted these life teachings given by the Holy Spirit, the only God of all when he revealed these wisdoms to our holy men. We must return to our spiritual teachers. Let my song be my prayer.