Land, Religion and Culture: American Indian Rights
Charlotte Black Elk
Thursday, 09 Feb 1989 at 12:00 pm – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
Charlotte Black Elk is the great-granddaughter of the Lakota holy man whose 1932 memoir Black Elk Speaks revived interest in American Indian religion. For 20 years she and her husband Gerald Clifford have worked to preserve the language, myths and sacred ceremonies of their ancestors which led them into the struggle to regain the Black Hills.Part of the National Affairs Series.
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