The Importance of Humor in the Life of Nicholas Black Elk

Nicholas Black Elk was shown a sacred red road and a destructive black road. The two roads intersected in the form of Catechism, only instead of intersecting the black road led up to the time of Christ. A humorous one is related by Father Henry Westrup, whose Lakota name was Little Owl. He recalls what happened when he and Nicholas Black Elk were heading to the house of another Catechist.