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.AI-powered
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Nicholas Black Elk (Lakota Medicine Man, Catholic Saint?)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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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