Black-Elk, Famous Oglala Lakota (Sioux) holy man embraced Christ

Born: 1863
Birthplace: Little Powder River, Wyoming
Black Elk's life encompassed the U.S. Sioux wars, the Battle of the Little Big Horn, and the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee Creek. As a young boy he had a vision and later became a medicine man. He left the reservation and toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Europe, returning in 1889. He converted to Catholicism in 1904 and became a catechist on reservations for several decades.