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The massacre of Native peoples by the American and Canadian government was nothing short of genocide. . Black Elk does not believe he is simply preserving a costume. For him, culture goes way below the skin, into the inward parts of the human...
In Chapter Two, we learn that Black Elk's childhood was fraught with hardship. He addresses the tension between the Native Americans and the white settlers, who wanted to push their claims firther west. He talks about his father being wounded in...
