SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Black Elk

1863 - 1950

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Heȟáka Sápa, 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 Battle of Little Bighorn. He survived the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. He toured and performed in Europe as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Black Elk is the 398th most popular social activist (down from 362nd in 2019), the 5,418th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,185th in 2019) and the 49th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Black Elk ranks 398 out of 840. Before him are Hamida Javanshir, Sergei Kovalev, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, Sophie Liebknecht, Sumner Paine, and Lempira. After him are Franceska Mann, Dhondo Keshav Karve, Meri Mangakāhia, Germaine Tillion, Ram Manohar Lohia, and İbrahim Kaypakkaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Black Elk ranks 102. Before him are Milka Ternina, Richard Mollier, Arabo, Lucien Pissarro, C. Aubrey Smith, and Anthony Hope. After him are Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Alfred Perot, Margaret Murray, Ashraf Ali Thanwi, Enrique Fernández Arbós, and Ljubomir Davidović. Among people deceased in 1950, Black Elk ranks 121. Before him are Recep Peker, Sergei Khudyakov, Hiroshi Yoshida, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Orhan Veli Kanık, and Pavel Bazhov. After him are Dezső Földes, Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Pedro Parages, George Kingsley Zipf, Yan Huiqing, and Konrad von Preysing.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Black Elk ranks 5,418 out of 20,380. Before him are Harry Guardino (1925), Mercedes de Acosta (1892), Mae Jemison (1956), George Catlin (1796), Doyle Brunson (1933), and Cecil Taylor (1929). After him are Howard Stern (1954), Courtney Hodges (1887), Chelsea Field (1957), Cotton Mather (1663), Charles Jewtraw (1900), and Anna Faris (1976).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Black Elk ranks 49. Before him are Abbie Hoffman (1936), Samantha Smith (1972), Leonard Peltier (1944), Dorothy Day (1897), Mathew Brady (1822), and Sumner Paine (1868). After him are Marsha P. Johnson (1945), Alice Paul (1885), Lester R. Brown (1934), Grace Sherwood (1660), Huey P. Newton (1942), and Claudette Colvin (1939).

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