Black Elk Quotes

United States, Leader
December 1, 1863 – August, 19, 1950.

Heȟáka Sápa (Black Elk) (December 1, 1863 – August 19, 1950) was a famous wičháša wakȟáŋ (medicine man and holy man) and heyoka of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) who lived in the present-day United States, primarily South Dakota. He was a second cousin of the war chief Crazy Horse.

I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

Black Elk
- Summer
So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.

Black Elk
- Earth
- Red

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

Black Elk