The Earth is my Mother I shall not want
I am led by the gentle breeze to the sacred valley where sweetness and beauty follow me all my days.

A message to all Pipe Carriers
I, Elk Looks Back, am a Midewin pipe carrier. I was gifted my six sided pipe 30 years ago by a healer.  I did not know that it would carry me all the way to the Andes where I was asked by my council elders to lay out the born and ancient ones that we may be related in the circle of life. There was a fire that burned in the center.  It quickly burned the grass in the shape of a square pulling more to the NORTH.  In the tradition of the South this is where the mouth is.  I filled tobacco and offered my prayers thanking my pipe for the gift of flight.  She must have been there before.

I have been requested by my elders to the North to bring back a document, a braid that we are now recognized North to South at the place of the Crystal Cave, Manataka Hot Springs.

Upon my return from South America my pipe has led me to the Pipestone Quarry in Pipestone, Minnesota, southwest corner.  It is the place of my fathers birth.  It was he who gifted me with a map of all the Northern tribes.  I awoke at dawn and drove to the quarry and walked with a pounding heart straight to the Oracle.  This was very familiar.  50 years have passed and my spiritual reunion, pipe with quarry, heart with the Mother feels pretty great.

The Oracle speaks:
All you who have a canupa, a sacred pipe, that you hold in your hand.  Have you not chose me to be the guide to the Red Road?  I call you back to me to be renewed.  I celebrate you Peace Maker.  I hear your prayers.  Let me be known to you as the birthing place of your peace making. To All directions, all five fingered ones who carry me, I the sacred red womb have a message for you.  Come.

Elk Looks Back:
When I heard this, I knew you would listen.  For the color of our pipe is in our blood.  I lifted my head and I could see that the crystal cave is singing and now the red (Catlinite) Pipestone quarry is calling that we may declare our Earth Mother at Pipestone, Minn a Place of Peace.