At the center of our culture was our language. The Lakota language has no gender nouns or pronouns because we were “the people” not the men and women, the girls and boys, we lived as one. The language itself is what enabled everyone to think Red Road as well. The English language cannot translate the Lakota language because it lacks the same meaning. To speak Lakota requires one think differently in the understanding of its words and symbols of oneness with all things. Our language was integral to our society’s function and unity. It was our language that imparted the stories of our culture, of our spiritual life, and the walk on the Red Road way of life. Our way of life was not a religion. It was, and should be again, a way of being.