Prayer of the Foster-Parent Chant (Teton-Sioux)
Great Mystery, you have existed from the first;
This sky and this earth you created.
Wing flapper (Thunder Bird), you have existed from the first,
Your nation is half soldiers and half chiefs, so they say.
Lend me a good day; I borrow it.
Me, the Indian race, you have uplifted.
But now I am in despair;
Yet this good boy will renew the life of his people.
So, Great Mystery, look upon me; pity me,
That the nation may live—
Before the face of the North, the nation may live.