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Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala - Steltenkamp, Michael F
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Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award, Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities This biography of Black Elk is based on extensive interviews with Lucy Looks Twice, the holy man's last surviving child, as well as others who knew him personally. Michael F. Steltenkamp sheds new light on the figure portrayed in Black Elk Speaks as a victim of Western subjugation, doomed to live out his life as a relic of the past. Instead, Steltenkamp reveals that in 1904 Black Elk was baptized a Catholic and subsequently served as a devoted ...

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Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala 2019, University of Oklahoma Press, Oklahoma

ISBN-13: 9780806129884

Revised edition

Trade paperback

Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala 1993, University of Oklahoma Press

ISBN-13: 9780806125411

Hardcover