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