Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for i was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes as they must live together like one being...Black Elk said the mountain he stood upon in his vision was Harney Peak in the Black Hills. "But anywhere is the center of the world, " he added.

--excerpt from BLACK ELK SPEAKS