Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic Mohegan The first book to follow Size:M The first book to follow Black Elk's lifelong spiritual journey—from medicine man to missionary and mystic—Steltenkamp's work provides a much needed corrective to previous interpretations of this special man's life story This collection of essays sometimes playfully but always insistently changes our readings of Native works and challenges our roles as intellectual guides until we step deeper into the ambiguous territories where writer Steltenkamp draws on published and unpublished material to examine closely the last fifty years of Black Elk's life—the period often overlooked by those who write and think of him only as a nineteenth century figure Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to appreciate the American Indian world that it described