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Nicholas Black Elk (Lakota Medicine Man, Catholic Saint?)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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The Importance of Being Sincere

Black Elk was a single father with Catholic sons. The spirit of Katie Warbonnet would have expected him to keep raising them Catholic as he'd promised her. Black Elk could have started thinking about becoming Catholic to help his children. But that doesn't mean he wasn't sincere in what he came to believe.

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