#nicholas black elk

[baenwolf]

Black Elk, Nicholas (1863 - 1950)

Black Elk, also known as Nicholas Black Elk, was a prominent spiritual leader and medicine man of the Oglala Lakota Sioux tribe. Born in 1863, Black Elk lived through a period of immense cultural and political upheaval for Native American communities. His life and teachings offer valuable insights into the rich indigenous traditions and the devastating impact of colonization on Native American…

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#Native American #New Age #Nicholas Black Elk #Philosophy #Spirituality

[bookguide]

Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic

Author: Michael F. Steltenkamp

Book: 1/1

Genre: biography

Summary: Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic, tells the full interpretive story of Black Elk. Steltenkamp shows that Black Elk was not the native traditionalist others have depicted him to be, but rather a religious thinker with a positive outlook that merged Lakota ideas with Christianity. This text tells of Black Elk’s travels, visions, experience in the Battle of Little Big Horn, and the way he led his people along the path of God.

Review: I immediately pulled this book off the shelf when I saw it’s title. Quick fun fact: I attend school in the Black Hills area of South Dakota and I have personally hiked Black Elk Trail in Custer State Park. It is absolutely gorgeous. Since I have been in some of places that Black Elk has walked, I was eager to learn about his story. Steltenkamp’s telling of Black Elk’s story provided in-depth details, as well as parts of his story that many authors did not want to tell. Previous biographies about Black Elk only tell of his pre-Christian life while practicing Lakota traditions. However, Black Elk wanted his story as a missionary and his family’s involvement in their church to be told. Steltenkamp gives the reader the background of other authors’ stories and this lack of truly understanding Black Elk as a Christian. Steltenkamp fully immerses the reader into Black Elk’s life as a medicine man, heyoka, missionary, and an important figure in the church. This book contains lots of information, some parts more entertaining than others; I would recommend this book to anyone who loves history, non-fiction, and learning about other cultural experiences.

I included photos I took at Black Elk Peak, enjoy the view!

Rating: 5/5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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[radical-revolution]

The First Peace - Nicholas Black Elk (Hehaka Sapa)

“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka , and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this.

The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations.

But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is known that true peace, which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men.”

Image: Diablo Lake, Washington

[siamkram]

“Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and around and about me was the whole hoop of the world… I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit and the shapes of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the Sacred Hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight and in the centre grew one almighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one Mother and one Father, and I saw that it was holy.”

-From the vision of Nicholas Black Elk Lakota Holy Man: 1863 - 1950

#lakota #web of life #threads #hoop #sacred hoop #black elk #holy man #medicine man

[rosecoloredknight]

I was tagged by @homesick-evermore !! Which I apologize profusely about the late response — 🫶🏼

BUT I REALLY APPRECIATE IT —

nickname: poncho 🌵

sign: Virgo (???) I'm not familiar with THIS sorry!!

height: 5'7 or 5'8 on a good posture day

last thing i googled: O'Neil eye glasses!! I'm trying to find new frames!! Should I buy plain black ones??

song stuck in my head: Sun by Sleeping At Last

number of followers: 1251

lucky number: 32

favourite colour: Forest Green 🌲!!

dream job: dorky father and a "I know I'm not good enough but I'll do my best for you" partner 🖤

Currently wearing: loose comfy shirt and Boxer Briefs

movies/books/song that summarize me: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Mercury by Sleeping At Last

The Incredible Hulk

favourite song: Cut My Lip (live) by Tyler Joseph

Chances Are by Bob Marley

Passenger by Noah Kahan

favourite instrument: piano and ukulele

aesthetic: a fool in love with life

favourite author: Nicholas Sparks (I know he's not well received by everyone around and I don't know why, but he's the author of the book that made me grow in love with reading)

favourite animal noise: elk bugle sounds, whale sounds, and birds flapping wings

random: I've been fascinated by this sport I used to pay little to no attention? The only reason I'm keeping it vague is BECAUSE I will make an announcement on it soon.

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thank you so much for the tag!! this was super fun to do!!!

No tagging from me, however if anyone wants to participate, but not post it, please do so!! just something to think and answer on your own!! AND maybe if you don't mind, share it with me!?! It's okay if not!! As long as you had fun answering them yourself!

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[swamyworld]

Black Elk, White Buffalo Woman and the mystery of the red heifer ceremony

With the red heifer ceremony in the news, some Christians are learning how Jesus fulfilled this little known ancient ceremony in his passion. Servant of God Nicholas Black Elk, the great Lakota holy man and Catholic catechist, can help us further understand what this ceremony means. The red heifer ceremony from the Book of Numbers — when a red heifer is sacrificially burned outside the Temple and…

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[critical-quoter]

December Books

Here we are, the end of 2023. When I first got back into reading, I was not expecting to be so hyper-fixated on it. I was just looking for something to help with the brain fog and mental slump that I was struggling with.

Sweet, Sexy Heart - Melissa Foster ⭐⭐⭐⭐ King of Greed - Ana Huang ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Serendipity - Carly Phillips ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Forever My Girl - Heidi McLaughlin ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Real - Katy Evans ⭐ Bratva Knight - T. J. Maguire ⭐⭐⭐⭐ If I Break - Portia Moore ⭐ Found by You - Victoria H. Smith ⭐⭐⭐ Always Been Mine - Victoria Paige ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Daughter of Smoke and Bone - Laini Taylor ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Days of Blood and Starlight - Laini Taylor ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Savage - Michelle St. James ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Quick Trick - Skye Jordan ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Captive - Jex Lane ⭐⭐⭐ Forged by Malice - Elizabeth Helen ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Gold - Raven Kennedy ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Where Good Girls Go to Die - Holly Renee ⭐⭐⭐ Baby Baby: Chicago - Victoria H. Smith ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Risk - S. T. Abby ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sidetracked - S. T. Abby ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Scarlet Angel - S. T. Abby ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ All the Lies - S. T. Abby ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Paint It Red - S. T. Abby ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Bought - Lauren Landish ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Keeping Lily - Izzy Sweet ⭐⭐⭐ Love and Other Words - Christina Lauren ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful Revenge - Sienna Blake ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Born, Darkly - Trisha Wolfe ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beg, Borrow or Steal - Susie Tate ⭐⭐⭐ The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Breakaway - Heather M. Orgeron ⭐⭐⭐⭐ From Lukov with Love - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Sweetet Oblivion - Danielle Lori ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Hero - Lauren Rowe ⭐️⭐️ Wait With Me - Amy Daws ⭐️⭐️ Trick Play - Eden Finley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ His Sweetest Song - Victoria H. Smith ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Gent - Harloe Rae ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Taking It Easy - Erin Nicholas ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Chance - Louise Rose ⭐️ Beyond Repair - Susie Tate ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Pestilence - Laura Thalassa ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ War - Laura Thalassa ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Famine - Laura Thalassa ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Death - Laura Thalassa ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Marriage Effect - Karla Sorensen ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Hidden Miles - Claire Kingsley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Let Me Burn - Carrie Elks ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Deep in the Pocket - Lainey Davis ⭐️⭐️ Secrets of the Sea Lord - Starla Night ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Hate to Love You - Jennifer Sucevic ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Going Down Easy - Carly Phillips ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Remember When - Judith McNaught ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ One for My Enemy - Olivie Blake ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Maddest Obsession - Danielle Lori ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Desperate Measures - Katie Robert ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Serenade to the Elf Queen - Niro J. Halle ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Crow - Erin Trejo ⭐️⭐️ From Now Until Forever - Alexa Rivers ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Taking Meghan - Izzy Sweet ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ruthless Vows - Rebecca Ross ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Breaker - Harloe Rae ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Silenced by Sin - Ashley Lane ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Wild for You - Kendall Ryan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Haunted by Regret - Ashley Lane ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Hungry Like a Wolf - Jessica Lynch ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Phantom - Greer Rivers ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Deal Breaker - Melissa McClone ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Vampire Bewitched - L. E. Wilson ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Beautiful Savage - Caroline Peckham ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Devil Wears Black - L. J. Shen ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

71 total books read in December.

#book #booklr #books #book lover #book quotes #reading #quote #lit #literature #novel #December books #2023 tbr #tbrbooks

[urbanhermit]

[apesoformythoughts]

Servant of God Nicholas Black Elk's legacy is popularly celebrated for his fascinating spiritual life. How could one man, one deeply spiritual man, serve as both a traditional Oglala Lakota medicine man and a Roman Catholic catechist and mystic? How did these two spiritual and cultural identities enrich his prayer life? How did his commitment to God, understood through his Lakota and Catholic communities, shape his understanding of how to be in the world?

But, to fully understand the depth of Black Elk's life-long spiritual quest requires a deep appreciation of his life story. He witnessed devastation on the battlefields of Little Bighorn and the Massacre at Wounded Knee, but also extravagance while performing for Queen Victoria as a member of "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West Show. Widowed by his first wife, he later shared a home with his second wife and their eight children. Black Elk's spiritual visions granted him wisdom and healing insight as a child, yet he grew progressively physically blind in his adult years. These stories, and countless more, offer insight into this extraordinary man whose cause for canonization is now underway at the Vatican.

#nicholas black elk #catholicism

[smart-ass-herbalism]

Saints and Ecological Spirituality

The following list consists of saints and other prominent Catholics who are associated with nature or herbalism on some level. May be expanded upon in the future.

St. Francis of Assisi, patron of animals and nature, known for his liturgical chant “Canticle of the Sun,” starting the Franciscan Order, and for utilizing nature in his preaching, Italy

St. Kateri Tekakwitha, patroness of ecology, known for her devout faith in Jesus; would make crosses through out the woods she walked in to remember to pray, Mohawk-Iroquois 

Servant of God Nicholas Black Elk, catechist and preacher, associated with indigenous Catholic worship and decolonization, Oglala Lakota

St. Fiacre, patron of gardening, a monk sought after by his community for his skills with herbs and healing, Ireland

St. Hildegard of Bingen, Benedictine nun and mystic, prolific writer of many subjects including herbal medicine and sought after for political advice, Germany

Servant of God Dorothy Day, activist and humanitarian, known for jump-starting Catholic social justice activism for many concerns including ecology, United States

St. Bibiana, virgin martyr who was persecuted along with her family during the Early Church, her grave was said to miraculously spring up herbs that cured ailments like hangovers and headaches, Rome

St. Martin de Porres, the first Black Dominican member originally apprenticed under a barber, and as a result also learned how to use healing herbs. He left the trade to become a monk and used his healing training to help the poor and service his brothers, Peru

#catholic #saints #st francis of assisi #st hildegard of bingen #st kateri tekakwitha #sog nicholas black elk #st fiacre #catholic herbalism #herbalism

[elkian]

I just realized another great thing about that Santa’s Origins post

Cause Conservatives can have a White Santa, or they can have a Christian Santa, but they can’t have both

#elk text #12th #December #2017 #December 12th 2017 #christmas tag #cause you get Odin who's a Norse God #or you get Saint Nicholas who was a Black Middle Eastern man

[shamandrummer]

Walking the Red Road

In John G. Neihardt’s book, Black Elk Speaks, Oglala Lakota holy man and visionary Nicholas Black Elk shares a great vision which came to him in the summer when he was nine years old and which guided him throughout his life. That vision was extremely rich in detail and symbolism, all of which became important to him in the years ahead, but one image which was revealed to him in his vision and informs the entire book is the image of two spiritual paths: the Red Road and the Black Road.

The Red Road or Chanku Luta, as it is known by the Lakota, is a metaphor for living a spiritual way of life. It is a unique spiritual path that runs north and south. The Red Road is a way of life and enlightenment which has no end. This road is described as narrow, winding and difficult to follow. During times of difficulty, the Lakota people could always rely upon the Red Road for strength and renewal, just as they could rely upon the Inipi, also known as the sweat lodge ceremony. 

There is also a fearful black road of troubles and of war, which contrasts with a good red road of spiritual understanding. The Black Road or Chanku Sapa, which runs east and west, is a path of non-spirituality and self-centered greed. The two roads are said to cross in the center of the sacred hoop of the world, where the Tree of Life blooms. Walking the Red Road is a deep sense of obligation and a meaningful personal commitment to purposefully live your life each day, practicing and embodying the seven sacred virtues of the Lakota: prayer, honesty, humility, compassion, respect, generosity and wisdom.

#lakota #black elk #red road #spiritual path #tree of life #chanku luta

[bookguide]

“To live close to God is more enjoyable than to live easy—with all the pleasure and riches—because such things never will reach to heaven.”

— Nicholas Black Elk

Michale F. Steltenkamp, Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic

#black elk #keep reading #bookguide #currently reading #new books #aesthetic #quotes #bibliophile #booklr #quoteoftheday #quotation #book blog #book summary #book review #bookish #Nicholas black elk #Michael f steltenkamp #biography #nonfiction #history #native people #native culture #native american #indigenous #nativebeauty #pine ridge reservation #rosebud reservation

[mareebird]

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy. —Nicholas Black Elk

#catholic stuff #lakota sioux #columbus day

[littlefeather-wolf]

#NICHOLAS BLACK ELK ..... ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼

(Photo's courtesy of the Marquette University Archives)

The true ordeal of the Teton Lakota, the warrior tribe that whipped the U.S. Cavalry in several notable fights in the 1870s, began after the shooting stopped ......

Worse than the persistent hunger was the federal effort to “civilize” the Indians by stages into hat- and trouser-wearing farmers with one wife, Christian first names, fixed last names and children who learned English in school ...........

But the authorities had one aim above all others—to end the ancient practice of smoking a traditional pipe with a mixture of tobacco and the inner bark of the red willow before calling out to the ultimate power behind all things addressed by Lakota as Tunkashila ........

The Lakota resisted all of these changes but

clung to nothing more tenaciously than the pipe .......✊🏼

The Oglala holy man and healer known as Black Elk once said that Lakota used tunkashila, which means grandfather, as a sign of respect and intimacy ........

The word, with the accent on the second syllable, is not the name of God, who has no name in traditional Lakota religion but is simply described as Wakan Tanka, translated by convention into English as Great Spirit ........

But wakan is a heavily freighted word ......

It means spirit in the sense of immaterial, large, eternal and everywhere, but it also means ancient, unknowable, mysterious and powerful ........

Black Elk — 1863-1950

ONE OF THE MOST STUDIED AND WRITTEN ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS ......

BLACK ELK WAS AN OGLALA LAKOTA HOLY MAN ......

His story was first told in John Neihardt’s Black Elk Speaks, a book-length poem published in 1932 .....

Neihardt tells Black Elk’s story from his childhood through the 1890s.

Black Elk claims to have been at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. His story tells of the time after the battle when his people were forced to live on reservations, the impoverishment and what it was like living as prisoners on their own land .....

He describes the brief period of hope when the Ghost Dance religion emerged before the massacre at Wounded Knee.

In 1886 Black Elk joined Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show and toured eastern cities and even Europe.

His life after 1900 is recounted by Michael Steltenkamp’s Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala. Steltenkamp, a Jesuit, says that Black Elk became a Catholic missionary .......

He says that Lucy Looks Twice, Black Elk’s daughter, told him of the conversion. She says that her father traveled with the Jesuits and helped convert Arapahoes, Winnebagos, Omahas and others ......

He even went on fundraising trips to eastern cities.

In later years he combined his missionary work with showmanship at various tourist attractions in South Dakota, using his reputation as a Lakota holy man to draw visitors ......

Steltenkamp says Black Elk found no contradiction in his traditional Lakota religion and Catholicism .....

Black Elk died in 1950 on a night when the Pine Ridge area experienced a meteor shower. Black Elk made a prediction earlier in his life that lights in the sky would accompany his death .........

Heȟáka Sápa, commonly known as Black Elk (December 1, 1863 – August 19, 1959), was a wičháša wakȟáŋ ("medicine man, holy man") and heyoka of the Oglala Lakota people ........

He was a second cousin of the war leader " Crazy Horse " ......

Black Elk

Heȟáka Sápa

Born1 December 1863

Little Powder River, Wyoming .......

Died19 August 1950 (aged 86) ......

Pine Ridge, South Dakota .......

Resting place : Saint Agnes Catholic Cemetery, Manderson, South Dakota .....

Black Elk's first wife Katie converted to Roman Catholicism, and they had their three children baptized as Catholics .......

After Katie's death, in 1904 Black Elk, then in his 40s, converted to Catholicism .....

He also became a catechist, teaching others about Christianity ......

. He married again and had more children with his second wife; they were also baptized and reared as Catholic ........

He said his children "had to live in this world."

In August 2016, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rapid City opened an official cause for his beatification within the Roman Catholic Church ......

Black Elk is perhaps most well known for the books written about him by amateur ethnologist John Neihardt, whom he met near the end of his life ......

Neihardt wrote about Black Elk's religious views, visions, and events from his life. Neihardt published his book Black Elk Speaks in 1932 ......

. The words of Black Elk have since been published in numerous editions, most recently in 2008 .....

HIGHEST RESPECT AND HONOUR ¥ ✊🏼 ✊🏼 A'HO ✊🏼 ✊🏼

[hhemeraa-a]

LAYER ONE: THE OUTSIDE.

name:  Troy Michael Menceña

eye color:  dark brown, almost black

hair style/color:  shaved / kept very short, dark brown/black

height:  6′

clothing style:  Street casual, jeans, converse, hoodies, tshirts, etc.

best physical feature: back and shoulder muscles, hands and wrists, his smile

LAYER TWO: THE INSIDE

your fears: losing or hurting someone close to him, pelicans, motorcycles

your guilty pleasure: fireworks, cooking large birds and eating them with bare hands, cute girls, poptarts, very very sugary foods/desserts, cigarettes, weed weed weed

your ambitions for the future: atonement / forgiveness for what he’s done, making sure his mom is taken care of, have a family of his own, kick Jayson’s ass (again), see Myles happy again

LAYER THREE: THOUGHTS

your first thoughts waking up: ‘bathroom’ or ‘i wonder if that cute girl is still working at the Starbucks near work’ or ‘where dem boys at’, will i talk today? nope.

what you think about most: Nicholas. also: ‘do I have to talk to this [person] or can I message Myles to do it for me? I’m going to message Myles-’, are they staring at my scars or how tall I am? pls don’t look at my scars

what you think about before bed: Nicholas. how to stop thinking about Nicholas. can he finally talk to the girl at the Starbucks or will he awkwardly stand there with his cup of sugar with a hint of coffee again hoping she understands ASL or Spanish and he knows damn well she doesn’t. god i miss Nicholas

you think your best quality is: arms, shoots mad hoops, can cook a mean spaghetti, good hands for... things (wink wonk)

WHAT’S BETTER?

single or group dates: Single

to be loved or respected: loved (preferably both but you know)

beauty or brains: Brains because beauty fades and he’s got enough looks for the both of them, but they both can’t be stupid so

dogs or cats: dogs, but he attracts cats

LAYER FIVE: DO YOU…

lie: by omission, but very rarely.

believe in yourself: enough to get by

believe in love:  Absolutely

want someone: Complicated answer, but yes, though he thinks he had his someone and now he simply bides his time until he can be with him again. 

LAYER SIX: EVER BEEN…

been on stage:  in high school

done drugs:  Yes (you can hear him laughing to himself because yeah he has)

changed who you were to fit in: no. 

LAYER SEVEN: FAVORITES

favorite color: teal, yellows and reds

favorite animal:  he thinks dragons are pretty cool, or elk. bears. dogs. wolves, sharks

favorite movie: he doesn’t watch a lot of movies, but he likes action movies. probably got really into the Fast & Furious films for a while.

favorite game: used to be a COD bro, but DDR took over his life for a while in HS. Probably played League of Legends for a while and will check in on his Animal Crossing town every now and then just to maintain it. Nicholas got him into it so... he keeps it around. 

LAYER EIGHT: AGE

day your next birthday will be: September 5th

how old will you be:  the big 30

age you lost your virginity: 16

does age matter:  yes, don’t be a creep my man.

LAYER NINE: IN A PERSON

best personality: Understanding

best eye color:  all eyes are created equal (hazel)

best hair color: all hair is created equal (dark hair)

best thing to do with a partner: the devil’s tango, carnivals/amusement parks, ice cream in the park, workout together, literally anything because they are your partner and everything you do together is the best

LAYER TEN: FINISH THE SENTENCE

i love: [watching the sunrise or trying to find where the moon is when the sun is starting to set. First one to find it doesn’t have to pay for dinner.]

i feel:  [lost.]

i hide: [my scars.]

i miss: [the smell of lavenders.]

i wish: [I could take it back.]

Tagged by: @carnivorarium​ Tagging: @matteblackstars​ / and literally everyone else who would bother reading this

#;; we've all done this before (dash games) #pending Troy tag #this gets like... #progressively sadder as it goes down #;; an open book with ripped out pages (Troy About)