The Importance of Truth in a Book

Father Steltonkamp: Hilda Nihart published Black Elk in Flaming Rainbow, a book largely based on recollections of her father's visit with Black Elk. He says he was not an author who only visited Lucy in 1973; Rather, I was a teacher at the Red Cloud Indian School and my visits with Lucy were numerous from 1973 until her death five years later. Now he corrects what she said about Lucy, and her religious beliefs at the end of her life. The first of the corrections concerns the portrait that Hilda tried to paint of Lucy. You'll recall that she said, During her last year's Lucy carried her own sacred pipe with her. She had become