Year's End/Year's Beginning

Friends, Let Us Celebrate Together...

...the Returning of the Light

My heart is filled with joy, when I see you here, as the brooks fill with water when the snows melt in the spring, and I feel glad, as the ponies are when the fresh grass starts in the beginning of the year.

I heard of your coming, when I was many sleeps away, and I made but few camps before I met you. I knew that you had come to do good to me and to my people. I look for the benefits, which would last forever, and so my face shines with joy as I look upon you.

--Ten Bears, Yamparika Comanche