ABSTRACT
“With us the circle stands for the togetherness of people who sit with one another around the campfire, relatives, friends united in peace while the pipe passed from hand to hand. The camp in which every tipi had its place was also a ring. The tipi was a ring in which people sat in a circle and all the families in the village were in turn circles within a larger circle, part of the larger hoop which was the seven campfires of the Sioux, representing one nation. The nation was only a part of the universe, in itself circular and made of the earth, which is round, of the sun, which is round, of the stars, which are round. The moon, horizon, the rainbow—circles within circles, with no beginning and no end.” 1
