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Black Elk (Hehaka Sapa) (c. December 1863 – August 17 or August 19, 1950 (sources differ)) was a famous Wichasha Wakan (Medicine Man or Holy Man) of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux). He was the second cousin of Crazy Horse. Black Elk participated, at about the age of twelve, in the Battle of Little Big Horn of 1876, and was wounded in the massacre that occurred at Wounded Knee in 1890. August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Medicine man is an English term used to describe Native American religious figures; such individuals are analogous to shamans. ...
Eddie Plenty Holes, a Sioux Indian photographed about 1899. ...
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also called Custers Last Stand, was an engagement between a Lakota-Cheyenne combined force and the 7th Cavalry of the United States Army that took place on June 25, 1876 near the Little Bighorn River in the eastern Montana Territory. ...
Wounded Knee is a census-designated place located in Shannon County, South Dakota. ...
Black Elk married his first wife, Katie War Bonnett, in 1892. She became a Catholic, and all three of their children were baptized as Catholic. After her death in 1903, he too became baptized, taking the name Nicholas Black Elk, and continued to serve as a spiritual leader among his people, seeing no contradiction in embracing what he found valid in both his tribal traditions concerning Wakan Tanka, and those of Christianity. He remarried in 1905 to Anna Brings White, a widow with two daughters. She bore him three more children, and remained his wife until she died in 1941. In Lakota traditions, Wakan Tanka is a term for The Great Spirit which resides in every thing, similar to many notions of God. ...
Towards the end of his life, he revealed the story of his life, and a number of sacred Sioux rituals to John Neihardt and Joseph Epes Brown for publication, and his accounts have won wide interest and acclaim. He also claimed to have had several visions in which he met the spirit that guided the universe. Johnathan (John) Gneisenau Neihardt (January 8, 1881 - November 24, 1973) was an American author of poetry and prose, an amateur historian and ethnographer, and a philosopher of the Great Plains. ...
Books - Black Elk Speaks: being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux (1932) ( as told to John Neihardt.)
- The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux (1953) (as told to Joseph Epes Brown)
- The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt (1984)
- Hilda Neihardt, "Black Elk and Flaming Rainbow" (University of Nebraska Press, 1995) ISBN 0-8032-8376-8
Books about Black Elk, emphasizing his Catholicism: Black Elk Speaks is an autobiography of an Oglala Sioux written by John Neihardt. ...
- Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala, Michael Steltenkamp
- Black Elk: Colonialism and Lakota Catholicism, Damian Costello
VHS Video - Writings of Black Elk (C-SPAN, 2001) ID: 165060. From the jacket: The program, telecast from the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, contained portions of an interview with Black Elk’s great-granddaughter, a re-enactment of the battle, and looked at several artifacts from the site. Length: 2:32.
- Black Elk (C-SPAN, 2001) ID: 165105. From the jacket: Ms. Black Elk spoke about her great grandfather, his impact on U.S. history, Native American history, and tribal culture. Length: 0:34.
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