Black Elk : holy man of the Oglala
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Black Elk : holy man of the Oglala
University of Oklahoma Press, c1993
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-205) and index
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In this biography of Black Elk, based on extensive interviews with Lucy Looks Twice, the holy man's last surviving child, and others who knew him personally, Michael F. Steltenkamp sheds new light on the life of one of the USA's best-known religious figures. In "Black Elk Speaks" and "The Sacred Pipe" the former medicine man gives moving, first-person accounts of the first three decades of his life until about 1900, and describes the ancient religious ritual of his recently-conquered people. In these books, Black Elk - like the culture he cherished so deeply - is portrayed as a paralyzed victim of Western subjugation: doomed to live out his remaining years as a relic of the past, a prisoner of irreconcilably foreign ways. Because neither book reported details of his later life, readers could assume only that he lived his first 30 years productively and then merely endured his last 50 or 60. In 1890 the Wounded Knee massacre brought a dark night of the soul to Black Elk, but in 1904 he became a convert to Catholicism, and subsequently he served as a devoted catechist and missionary to his fellow American Indians.
His spiritual agony was displaced by new forms of religious involvement that occupied him until his death in 1950. Steltenkamp's biography shows that Black Elk's spirituality was not limited to traditional Indian religion but represented a remarkable convergence of traditional and Christian themes. The story told here rounds out the portrait of Black Elk. Not only does it offer some telling facts about the life of a famous man, it also provides new glimpses of how an entire group contended with challenges that today are still menacing.
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