Nicholas Black Elk (Lakota Medicine Man, Catholic Saint?)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Red Road
Jesuits had developed a special kind of Catechism to teach the faith. Black Elk used this two roads map for 30 years. He taught many, many generations of kids and older people what Christians call salvation history. Michael Stilton camp explains that part of the vision.
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Transcript
Two popular books held Lakota medicine man Black Elk as an icon of native American spirituality. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore the truths those books suppressed about Nicholas Black Elk, especially his conversion and devout Catholic faith.
