Neihardt told only part of Black Elk’s story; still, the Lakota medicine man became iconic for his presence at many of the events that represent the struggle of Native America as a whole.

Escalante spoke with local advocates for the cause, including some who testified to the reportedly miraculous powers of a man who ... But today, Black Elk’s ties to his Lakota Sioux traditions ...

Medicine Man, Missionary and Mystic and Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala, interviewed numerous Jesuit and Lakota contemporaries of Nicholas Black Elk, gaining a vastly more complete portrait of ...

Escalante spoke with local advocates for the cause, including some who testified to the reportedly miraculous powers of a man who ... But today, Black Elk's ties to his Lakota Sioux traditions ...

Escalante spoke with local advocates for the cause, including some who testified to the reportedly miraculous powers of a man who ... But today, Black Elk’s ties to his Lakota Sioux traditions ...

“Black Elk has become this symbol of the Great ... survived the Battle of Wounded Knee and served the Lakota as a medicine man. But his first wife, Katie War Bonnet, converted to Catholicism ...

Lakota medicine man turned Catholic catechist Nicholas Black Elk has begun the path to potential canonization with a Mass in South Dakota opening his cause for sainthood. "From a very young age ...

Nicholas Black Elk (c.1863-1950) was an Oglala Lakota medicine man, mystic, and Catholic catechist (a member of the laity who assists priests and nuns by teaching the faith to children and to ...

“Our people had to live under that icon, that man who did that to our people.” He proposed that the peak be named Nicholas Black Elk, instead. Black Elk was an Oglala Lakota medicine man who ...

A vice postulator for the canonization effort of Nicholas Black Elk spoke to a crowd Thursday morning in Rapid City about what to expect next on the Lakota holy man's path toward potential ...