And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

Black Elk

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Heȟáka Sápa [h xaka,sapa] commonly known as Black Elk (baptized Nicholas; December 1, 1863 – August 19, 1950), was a wičháša wakȟáŋ ("medicine man, holy man") and heyoka of the Oglala Lakota people. He was a second cousin of the war leader Crazy Horse and fought with him in the...

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