33.2 Black Elk

Teenage Black Elk has lived a full life by the time he witnessed Little Big Horn and became a healer but there is so much left. We discuss Sioux religious cerimonies, Wounded Knee and a somewhat decisive book Black Elk dictates in the 1930s.

Sources

The Sacred Pipe by Joseph Epes Brown

Black Elk Speaks by John G Neidhart

Black Elk by Joe Jackson

Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic by Michael F. Steltenkamp