“You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds and had come to earth as rain and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me”. ~Black Elk
Black Elk was born in 1863 on the Little Powder River, in what is now Wyoming. Like his father before him, Black Elk would become a warrior, as well as a medicine man or priest of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) tribe.
Green River, Wyoming was the starting point from which John Wesley Powell started his famous expeditions of the Green River, the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon in 1869, Black Elk would have been 6 years old…
Photo credit: 2014 GCE guest, Marco P. / Text: Wikipedia/ www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/black-elk http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu: http://www.native-languages.org