Asked to open a United Nations meeting on poverty, Kevin Locke recited an "eagle" prayer in his native Lakota Sioux dialect.


Kevin Locke plays flute at a UN roundtable on
the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
He opened the roundtable with a prayer recited in
his native Lakota Sioux dialect. The event was at
the United Nations in New York on 17 October 2008."The eagle is a symbol of the ascendant nature of the human spirit, of the innate capacity of the human spirit to rise to nobility," Mr. Locke explained at a U.N. roundtable to mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on Oct. 17.

"The eagle is compelled to fly upward," he said. "The eagle sees the light of the new day and in its joy calls out, 'I am the first to fly with the new day.'"

And then, referring to global efforts to eliminate poverty, Mr. Locke said, "We are all striving to escape the darkness." 

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