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Black Elk, an iconic American Indian spokesperson, Medicine Man, and community leader, was born into the Nation 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 and survived the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. He toured and performed in Europe as part of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. In 1927, Black Elk established the first American Indian dance pageant in the United States to honor Sitting Bull, to preserve Lakota culture, and to teach non-Indian tourists that the Lakota culture was a thing of beauty which deserved respect.
