Black Elk (Lakota/Sioux Medicine Man)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Black Elk Speaks
Author John Nye Heart interviewed Black Elk on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1930 and 1931. These interviews became the basis of the book Black Elk Speaks, which came out in 1932 when Black Elk was about 66 years old. In 1947, the anthropologist Joseph Epps-Brown interviewed him about Lakota religious ceremonies. The resulting book called The Sacred Pipe is an account of the seven rights of the Okla Lassu.
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Black Elk was a Native American medicine man who had paranormal visions and participated in some of the pivotal events in 19th-century US history. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss his remarkable life and the hidden truths about him.
