Indian Country Today (Lakota Times), November 13th, 2002
Rowlands, Lucinda Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 11-13-2002 OMAHA, Neb. - "Our history in the olden days was written on the four winds, but our elders, chiefs and wise men handed it down from generation to generation around campfires. Today is so different, we like to go back and dream about our own people," said Ben Black Elk while speaking in a classroom on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the late '60s.
Ben Black Elk was 70 years old at the time and wished to share his lifetime's worth of experience with the children in the traditional spoken word fashion. Showing typical Lakota adapta...
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