In 1932, Nebraska Poet Laureate John G. Neihardt’s most famous work, “Black Elk Speaks,” was published. Relaying the stories of the Lakota medicine man, the book recounted Black Elk’s ...

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The renaming of a historic site and a bid for sainthood have sparked a new look into the historic Lakota holy man, Black Elk.