Black Elk

Nicholas Black Elk was born in December of 1863. He was born into the Oglala Sioux tribe as a medicine man. At the age of twelve he participated in the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. In 1890 he was injured in the Wounded Knee Massacre. In 1892 Black Elk married his first wife Katie War Bonnett, she became catholic and all of their children were baptized catholic. After she died in 1903 he was baptized catholic and took the name Nicholas Black Elk. In 1905 he remarried to Anna Brings White, a widow of two daughters, and together they had three more children. They remained married until Anna died in 1941. Black Elk felt that God had chosen him to teach his people and lead them to a new way of life. For years he tought the Christian Faith to anyone that he encountered. Nicholas Black Elk died in 1950 still today we here about his love and mercy toward others.