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This biography of Black Elk is based on extensive interviews with Lucy Looks Twice| the holy man’s last surviving child| as well as others who knew him personally. Michael F. Steltenkamp sheds new light on the figure portrayed in Black Elk Speaks as a victim of Western subjugation| doomed to live out his life as a relic of the past. Instead| Steltenkamp reveals that in 1904 Black Elk was baptized a Catholic and subsequently served as a devoted catechist and missionary to his fellow American Indians until his death in 1950.
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