REL 1000 Lecture : 9 10 12 NOTES
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Black elk (syncretic response: lakota indian born in 1863, got sick and had a prophetic vision at age 9 and became a healer, didn"t tell anyone about this vision and become a healer until age 16. Inspired to revitalize after witnessing wounded knee: some say he wasn"t there, he just heard about it. He says he was there: converted to catholicism in 1904, why he said he converted: in the home of a family performing a ritual for a young boy. A catholic priest told him to get out and that his practices had no power. Catholic the rest of his life: a biography was written about him in 1932 called black elk speaks. In 1934, he reaffirmed his catholic faith: continued to pray to the six grandfathers while actively converting people to. Catholicism: catholics said he wasn"t catholic, lakotas said he wasn"t lakota.
