Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0806129883
ISBN 13
9780806129884
Category
NON FICTION
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Publication Year
1997
Publisher
Pages
240
Description
This biography of Black Elk is based on extensive interviews with Lucy Looks Twice, the holy man’s last surviving child, as well as others who knew him personally. Michael F. Steltenkamp sheds new light on the figure portrayed in Black Elk Speaks as a victim of Western subjugation, doomed to live out his life as a relic of the past. Instead, Steltenkamp reveals that in 1904 Black Elk was baptized a Catholic and subsequently served as a devoted catechist and missionary to his fellow American Indians until his death in 1950. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
