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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