The Lakota universe can be described as Mitakuye Oyasin.

That means everything is connected,
interrelated, and dependent in order to exist.
The universe includes all things that grow,
things that fly - everything you see in the world
or the place that you walk on.

These are all included in what
the Lakota see as the universe.
All of this is related.

- Robert Two Crow, Community Curator, 1999