Black Elk, in Steve Heisler The Missing Link: Teaching and Learning Critical Success Skills, R&L Education, 2 April 2014, p. 61.
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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
— Black Elk on Potential
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About Black Elk
Nicholas Black Elk Hehaka Sapa (c. December 1863 – 17 August or 19 August 1950 sources differ) was a famous Wichasha Wakan (Medicine Man or Holy Man) and Heyoka of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux). He participated at about the age of twelve in the Battle of Little Big Horn of 1876, and was wounded in the massacre that occurred at Wounded Knee in 1890.
About Black Elk
Nicholas Black Elk Hehaka Sapa (c. December 1863 – 17 August or 19 August 1950 sources differ) was a famous Wichasha Wakan (Medicine Man or Holy Man) and Heyoka of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux). He participated at about the age of twelve in the Battle of Little Big Horn of 1876, and was wounded in the massacre that occurred at Wounded Knee in 1890.
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