Black Elk

✶December 1, 1863

†August 19, 1950

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About their life

Heȟáka Sápa, commonly known as Black Elk, was a wičháša wakȟáŋ and heyoka of the Oglala Lakota people. He was a second cousin of the war leader Crazy Horse and fought with him in the Battle of Little Bighorn. He survived the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. He toured and performed in Europe as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.

Oglala Lakota leader (1863–1950)

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Biography from the article Black Elk on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.