Black Elk


Heka Spa was a famous wiha wak of the Oglala Lakota . He was Heyoka and a second cousin of Crazy Horse.

Black Elk was born in December 1863 along the Little Powder River .3 According to the Lakota way of measuring time Black Elk was born the Winter When the Four Crows Were Killed on Tongue River.101 In his early 40s in 1904, Black Elk was christened with the first name of Nicholas after becoming Catholic. When other medicine men would speak of him, such as his nephew Fools Crow, they would refer to him both as Black Elk and Nicholas Black Elk.44

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