Black Elk
Black Elk (Hehaka Sapped) (1863 - 1950) was a doctor and crowned man of the tribe of the Indians Lakota (Sioux). He was a small cousin of the famous Indian chief Crazy Horse. He took part in the very young age with the Bataille of Little Big Horn in 1876 and was wounded in 1890 at the time of the Massacre of Wounded Knee. In 1887, it voyaga in England within the show Wild Wild West of Buffalo Bill. year unpleasant experiment He described in chapter 20 off Black Elk Speaks .
Before its death, it revealed its history and of information concerning of ritual crowned the Sioux with John Neihardt and Joseph Epes Brown. The publication had an enormous success.