1590: Black Elk (Oglala Lakota) Quotes : “Black Elk Speaks,” the Sacred Hoop, and Lakota Vision
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/11/04
How do Black Elk’s 1932–1953 statements — from Black Elk Speaks to late-life testimonies — clarify the Lakota “sacred hoop,” interpret Wounded Knee, and frame Indigenous resilience?
1932: “You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.”
1932: “Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world.”
1932: “I did not know then how much was ended… A people’s dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.”
1932: “It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those shadows men get lost.”
1953: “Then they will realize that we Indians know the One true God, and that we pray to Him continually.”
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