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Black Elk came from a long lineage of medicine men and healers. His father was a medicine man, as were his paternal uncles. Black Elk was born into an Oglala Lakota family in December 1863 along the Little Powder River (at a site thought to be in the present-day state of Wyoming).
Benjamin Black Elk (17 May 1899 – 22 February 1973) [3] [2] of the Oglala Lakota people was an actor and educator known as the "fifth face" of Mount Rushmore. The son of Black Elk and Kate Black Elk, Benjamin played an uncredited role in the 1962 film How the West Was Won .
Black Elk Speaks is a 1932 book by John G. Neihardt, an American poet and writer, who relates the story of Black Elk, an Oglala Lakota medicine man. Black Elk spoke in Lakota and Black Elk's son, Ben Black Elk , who was present during the talks, translated his father's words into English. [ 1 ]
An Arizona woman has died more than a week after she was trampled by elk near outside her home, wildlife officials said Tuesday. The woman, who has not been named, died eight days after being ...
Heavy snowfall has depleted regular food sources in the mountains and caused wildlife to venture into urban areas in search of food.
Spotted Elk (Lakota: Uŋpȟáŋ Glešká) was born about 1826, the son of Lakota Sioux chief Lone Horn (Heh-won-ge-chat). His family belonged to the Miniconjou ("Planters by the River") subgroup of the Teton Lakota (Sioux). In 1877, Spotted Elk became the chief of his tribe upon his father's death at the age of 87.
Bull elk No. 357 was struck overnight by a semi truck in Illinois, bringing his journey from Black River Falls south to an end. ... MADISON – The fantastic voyage of a bull elk from the Black ...
The survivors are in some ways as significant as the losses: bison (H), grey wolf (C), lynx (C), grizzly bear (C), American black bear (C), deer (e.g. caribou, moose, wapiti (elk), Odocoileus spp.) (H), pronghorn (H), white-lipped peccary (H), muskox (H), bighorn sheep (H), and mountain goat (H); the list of survivors also include species which ...