Black Elk is successful in using his vision to help his people.
In the book Black Elk Speaks, Black Elk is successful in using his visions to aid his people in their everyday lives, and to regain their traditional ways of life. He is successful in doing this by taking the initiative to help the boy, who was ill, implementing the dance for his people and towards the ending his people have something to fight for when struggling for survival of their own land. The visions that Black Elk had proved to be relevant to their survival and helps his people believe in something new.
The first obstacle Black Elk faces is the little boy who was sick and need aid quickly. Black Elk is still in thought about this four-rayed herb that he sees twice- the first time in his great vision and the second time was when he is lamenting on the hill. He sets out to find this herb with a couple of friends. To find this sacred herb he sings a song that he heard in his great vision, "In a sacred manner they are sending voices. (p.152)" After singing this song he looks at a certain spot where crows, chicken hawks and spotted eagles are circling which leads him to think the circling of these birds is a sign of where the herb is. He arrives at the creek and finds the four-rayed herb. Before heading back home he made a prayer to the herb, "Now we shall go forth to the two-leggeds, but only to the weakest ones, and there shall be happy days among the weak. (p.152)"Meaning the sick can only be privileged to experience this herb. The next day Cuts-to-Pieces asks Black Elk to help his sick and possibly dying son with his powers. Black Elk accepts and quickly gets all elements from his vision together; a pipe, a drum, the four rayed-herbs, a wooden cup full of water, and an eagle bone whistle that he's seen before in his vision. He performs a ceremony that involves prayers to his grandfather and the great spirits. For instances he says, "The water in the cup that you have given me, by its power shall the dying live.
It was not until Black Elk performed the Horse Dance that his powers came to their full strength. ... His people realized that Black Elk had a gift, but he never told them of his vision. The six powers had given Black Elk the tremendous responsibility of saving his people. ... Due to this power to heal, Black Elk became a great man among his people. ... This third event is what Black Elk saw at Wounded Knee. ...
Black Elk Speaks as told through John. ... The boys of Black Elk's people are case and point to this attempted plea. ... Black Elk is comparing their tepees to the nest of a bird. ... Black Elk describes the significance of the circle to his people. ... And perhaps, in doing so, Black Elk does not fail his mighty vision. ...
In the book Black Elk Speaks, being the life story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux as told through John G. ... While still young, at the age of nine, Black Elk had a vision where he was the leader of all his people. ... Black Elk always had the visions of the people dancing and the Grandfathers that were symbolizing villages in many dreams that he had to save. ... The Black Elk realized in having the power to cure people as few other spiritual leaders could. ... Black Elk realized that it was all a beautiful dream and it was over. ...
In the book Black Elk Speaks, being the life story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux as told through John G. ... While still young, at the age of nine, Black Elk had a vision where he was the leader of all his people. ... Black Elk always had the visions of the people dancing and the Grandfathers that were symbolizing villages in many dreams that he had to save. ... The Black Elk realized in having the power to cure people as few other spiritual leaders could. ... Black Elk realized that it was all a beautiful dream and it was over. ...
John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks seeks to carry on the sacred history of the Lakota people. In telling Black Elk's story, Niehardt also conveys the unique beliefs of the culture. Black Elk describes many of the traditions of his culture, including the "Horse Dance," (162) in which Black Elk performs a ceremonial ritual calling for the intercession of the "Grandfathers," (163). ... Also, throughout the story, Black Elk faces the responsibility of reviving his culture. ... Yet after reading Black Elk I felt surprisingly ignorant. ...
"Black Elk Speaks" is the biography of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux tribe. ... The bay horse tells him that these horses will take Black Elk to his Grandfathers. ... Black Elk recognized the six Grandfathers as the Powers of the World. ... Throughout the book, it is stated that Black Elk felt he had done nothing for the nation. ... This final paragraph proves that although Black Elk felt defeated, he still had hope. ...
Black Elk learned growing up that these traits (of a liar, thief, and violent) are the characteristics of a Wasichu (American). ... The greed that Americans had for the land was new and harmful to Black Elk and the Lakotas. ... Black Elk remembers when, "News came the Black Hills had been sold to the Wasichus and also all the country west of the Hills our people did not want to do this- (p.103). ... The mercilessness of the Army created in Black Elk a dread and contempt for the Wasichus. ... So Black Elk's experience with the Wasichus had gotten progressively worse before he and the Lako...
The last elk in Tennessee is believed to have died in the mid-1800s. ... Elk will be the largest animal in the Park, even bigger than the Black Bear. Elk are territorial and can be dangerous. ... The elk usually give birth at the beginning of June. ... The buffer zone is the farthest limit the elks can travel and anywhere outside of this zone is the no elk zone. ...
These brotherhoods, especially the Black Elks, and their Masonic lodges gave African American's a space where they were all equal, and were in turn, able to formulate action and plans to embark on the journey to gain equality, civil and political rights. ... Hall laid the groundwork for Black American's and Black fraternal groups to build on; he was the beginning of the fight for civil rights. ... Not only did the Prince Hall Masons fight for equal rights for black men, they also fought for the rights of women, white and black. ... At this time black insurance companies were not ...
