Who is Zahn McClarnon, and how did he rise to fame? Meet the actor leading Native American representation on TV and explore ...

He goes on to describe Nicholas Black Elk, a famous Lakota medicine man, as racist and dismisses well-known Lakota spiritual leader Leonard Crow Dog as a “drunk.” Mixing biblical scripture ...

Coralie Hughes never understood why her grandfather kept the bow and arrows once owned by famed Lakota holy man Nicholas Black Elk. John G. Neihardt, who wrote “Black Elk Speaks,” had given ...

But change is coming. Revered Oglala Lakota medicine man, Black Elk, prophesized that with the seventh generation following the tragic Wounded Knee massacre of 1890, Native American people would ...

The Horse and the Man were one entity on ... perhaps you too will feel the medicine that I speak of. ♪ [Horse snorts] [Wind blowing] ♪ Black Elk: As Lakota, we know the lands and life forms ...

In one of Black Elk’s prayers, prayed atop the highest peak of He Sapa, the Black Hills, he says of God, “You are older than all need. Older than all pain and prayer.” Coming from a man who ...

Neihardt’s most famous work, “Black Elk Speaks,” was published. Relaying the stories of the Lakota medicine man, the book recounted Black Elk’s experiences of being present at the Battle ...

The University of Nebraska Press no longer will publish “Black Elk Speaks” by John G ... Press will publish the biography of the Lakota holy man. “It’s a loss for not only the press ...

It is now called Black Elk Peak, in recognition of Black Elk, a noted Lakota medicine man. The name change was the result of decades of work by Lakota individuals, including Basil Brave Heart, a ...

About a decade earlier, however, Lakota medicine man Nicolas Black Elk named it the Six Grandfathers after a vision of the ancestral spirits who appeared to him representing six sacred direction ...

Servant of God Nicholas Black Elk, the great Lakota holy man and Catholic ... then roll again and became sacred medicine. "The people shall follow the man's steps," Black Elk remembered in the ...

In addition to inspiring both Native American and non-Native students and her many social media followers, Black Elk has also earned the respect ... we always considered plants as food and medicine.