The Sioux were hunters, and they relied mainly on the buffalo. He had many children, but the one discussed in this essay is his daughter, Lucy Looks Twice. "My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow? So many other men have lived and shall live that story, to be grass upon the hills.īlack Elk was born into a tribe of the Plains Indians, the Oglala Sioux. He also claimed to have had several visions in which he met the spirit that guided the universe. 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. Together they had three more children and remained married until she died in 1941. He remarried in 1905 to Anna Brings White, a widow with two daughters. He 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. After her death in 1903, he too was baptized, taking the name Nicholas Black Elk and serving as a catechist. She became a Catholic, and all three of their children were baptized as Catholic. In 1887, Black Elk traveled to England with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, an unpleasant experience he described in chapter 20 of Black Elk Speaks.īlack Elk married his first wife, Katie War Bonnett, in 1892. He was Heyoka and a second cousin of Crazy Horse.īlack Elk participated, at about the age of twelve, in the Battle of Little Big Horn of 1876, and was injured in the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. December 1863 – August 17 or August 19, 1950) was a famous Wicháša Wak?á? (Medicine Man or Holy Man) of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux). The annual Catholic Sioux Congress and was active in converting others toīlack Elk with wife and daughter, circa 1890-1910 In 1904 he was converted by a priest to the Catholic faith and took the name Ritual observances would cause the white people to leave and the buffalo to return,ĭeclined after it failed to protect its followers at the Battle of Wounded Knee. Inġ889 he returned to the Pine Ridge Reservation, where, as a spiritual authority, In 1886 he joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Of Little Bighorn in 1876 and the upheaval that followed the tribe's flight toĬanada to join Sitting Bull. The children born into this decade will be the seventh generation.īorn: December 1863? - Little Powder River, Wyomingīorn to a medicine man who followed Crazy Horse, Black Elk witnessed the Battle Sacred Hoop which had been broken, would be mended in seven generations. Over a hundred years ago Black Elk had a vision of the time when Indian people would heal from the devastating effects of European migration.
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