Black Elk's Vision
Monday, July 29, 2024
This week’s CAIRNS Etanhan Wotanin column is the fifth of our weekly “dispatches” relating to the 1874 reconnaissance expedition into the Black Hills. This week six members of the expedition climbed Hinhankagha Paha, the highest peak in the Black Hills. We examine the renaming of Hinhankagha Paha to Harney Peak in 1857 and to Black Elk Peak in 2016. The image above is a detail of “Black Elk at the Center of the World” by Standing Bear, ca. 1932. The column, “Black Elk’s Vision,” can be read now by clicking here, or later this week in the Lakota Times newspaper.
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