Black Elk's personal story often mirrors the dramatic transition in culture his people endured. In 1882 he did his first healing, using a flowering herb he found that he had seen first in his Great Vision and later during a vision quest when he was eighteen other power-giving visions guided him throughout his life. Black Elk's "Great Vision," which came in a twelve-day coma when he was nine years old, revealed to him the roles of warrior, healer, and spiritual guide that would be his responsibility for the remainder of his life the images also showed the coming devastation of his people, but ended with his seeing, from the top of Harney Peak in the Black Hills, a future when all peoples would live in respect and harmony. Nicholas Black Elk attracted international attention with the publication of Black Elk Speaks (1932), a narrative of his life and visions based on interviews by John G. (1863-1950), Oglala Lakota spiritual leader and healer.
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