Nicholas Black Elk : medicine man, missionary, mystic /

Steltenkamp, Michael F.

Nicholas Black Elk : medicine man, missionary, mystic / by Michael F. Steltenkamp. - Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2009. - xxi, 270 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cultural background -- Childhood -- The vision -- Little Bighorn -- Medicine man -- Ghost dance -- Wounded Knee legacy -- Conversion -- Catechist -- The Two Roads map -- Holy humor -- Neihardt's visit -- Sanctity -- Sacred pipes -- Sacred rites -- The Land of Many Lodges -- Black Elk's legacy -- Medicine man, missionary, mystic -- Chronology of events related to Nicholas William Black Elk.

0806140631 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780806140636 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2009000551


Black Elk, 1863-1950.


Missionaries--Great Plains--Biography.
Mystics--Great Plains--Biography.
Oglala Indians--Biography.
Oglala Indians--Religion.
Shamans--Great Plains--Biography.

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