
Nicholas Black Elk (Lakota Medicine Man, Catholic Saint?)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Secretiveness of Hilda Nihart
Hilda Nihart was a big defender of her father's work. She didn't mention to me that she had ever spoken to anyone about her father's life. Hilda conjectures, after reading her father's book, Lucy was disturbed to learn the truth about her father. But Father Steltonkamp was much more than just a writer who spoke to Lucy in a single year.
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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.
