Black Elk (1863–1950)

I did not know then how much was ending. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age I can still see the butchered women and children heaped and scattered all along the crooked mulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud and was buried in the blizzard.

Interwoven with Black Elk's many spiritual and healing visions
is the pure horror of the white man's attempt to exterminate all the Indian people..

Black Elk har blivit känd för eftervärlden som helig man och shaman. Hans bok publicerades för första gången år 1934, och hundratusentals läsare har under årens lopp i det närmaste helgonförklarat honom som visionär och uttolkare av livets innersta mysterier. Boken har kallats den viktigaste någonsin om indiansk religion.

Interesting account from a Lakota man who lived at the time of Crazy Horse and Custer. Includes religous practices.