This they tell, and whether it happened so or not I do not … - Black Elk

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This they tell, and whether it happened so or not I do not know; but if you think about it, you can see that it is true.

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Nicholas Black Elk [Hehaka Sapa] (c. December 1863 – 17 August or 19 August 1950 [sources differ]) was a famous Wichasha Wakan (Medicine Man or Holy Man) and Heyoka of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux). He participated at about the age of twelve in the Battle of Little Big Horn of 1876, and was wounded in the massacre that occurred at Wounded Knee in 1890.

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This they tell, and whether it happened so or not I do not know; but if you think about it, you can see that it is true. - Black Elk

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