soft grass that will grow. The tree will have many uses. It will be used to warm you in the winter, to make rafts to float on the waters, and it will make your homes for your protection against the cold winter. It will heat you when it is cold. It will cook your food and its fire will be a blessing as the flames leave by small parts into the skies. It will also tell you the direction you must go so you need not ever get lost while you are traveling. The seed you shall plant, the earth will help them grow so you will have something to eat. She will separate and make streams to harbor the fishes you will eat and for you to drink and bathe. So protect the waters and keep them clean. Your life depends on its purity just like the air you breathe. You may have my breath in you, and if you disobey me, I will withdraw my breath and you will be no more. And through my breath, I will be with you always. When you are sick, the earth will bear roots and herbs for you to use. I will not inflict any sickness that will not have herbs to cure. I will speak to your medicine man through a coma only and only to this man I shall designate the cures. I will speak to him only through a vision. No one else shall see me again, and this man shall choose someone of his kind and reveal this secret to any man worthy of him. To avoid conflict, there will be only one in each group to speak to me. His power strength will be as strong as his faith in me. I shall keep the mother earth in my custody so I may destroy it any time that you have lost faith in me and disobey my teaching. You will, at any time I choose for you, return your body to the mother earth, but if you love me and keep the faith your spirits will go to the Happy Hunting Ground, where everything will be for your taking, and you will die no more. But if you do not, your carcass will remain in mother womb and return to dirt of which you were created. “The earth will be for your use. Use it in any way you choose. But no one can claim it as their own. It is not to be bought, sold, or rented, because the earth is mine. Misuse it, and you shall repent for any wrong use of the land or its streams. This I command you to live by, so go out in the world that you have made for yourself and be fruitful and multiply.”