[BlackElk]

I took the screen name, amopng other reasons, to clear confusion as to Black Elk, who was a warrior at Little Big Horn, a pagan medicine man for about forty years thereafter as portrayed in the book Black Elk Speaks but the book was written by an Ivy League professor who wanted to do a noble savage book.

Actually, Black Elk was baptized as a Roman Catholic in about 1915 about 18 years before the famous book. Surely the author knew that since Black Elk was a lay Catholic missionary to the Sioux from the time of his baptism to his death in about 1945 as a 1990s biography revealed. When that biography was written, Black Elk's surviving daughters were quoted in the New York Times Book Review as expressing gratitude that his Catholicism had been recognized.

#9 is less important than most of the others.

[keri]

Well, if he wanted to do a "noble savage book" then he was successful. I believe the author had to have an interpreter, as Black Elk spoke no English.

Whether or not Black Elk was pagan or Catholic is irrelevant to me.

Black Elk was a warrior.

Would you care to explain why #9 is less important than the others? No one thinks we shouldn't share, but there's a right way and a wrong way to share.