The Story of Black Elk's Baptism

Nick Black Elk was baptized as a Catholic on December 6, 1904. After he became a convert and started working for the missionaries, he put all his medicine practice away. He remarried in 1905 to a woman named Anna who had two daughters named Agatha and Mary Waterman. Two years after their marriage, in 1907, Nick and Anna had a daughter together. Her name was Lucy Luxe twice. She was the longest surviving child of Black Elk passing on in 1978.