
Nicholas Black Elk (Lakota Medicine Man, Catholic Saint?)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Last Years of Black Elk's Life
In addition to saying the rosary, Black Elk also performed another devotion as he was preparing to die. The two of them used to walk from the general store to church every Sunday. "Everyone in Manderson knew he said it all the time," says Stilton Camp. 'There was no social pressure on Black Elk to maintain an insincere Catholic act'
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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.
