Black Elk Douglass I call you friends (John

I call you friends (John 15:15)

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Columba Andrew Stewart is executive director and CEO of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library

Black Elk Douglass I call you friends (JohnDamian Costello has taken post colonial studies to new and exciting heights with his book, Black Elk: Colonialism and Lakota Catholicism. Costello's work examines the life and thought of Black Elk situating this great American Indian figure within his complex cultural, religious, and historical context. Many previous studies on Black Elk see him simply as a paradigmatic American Indian religious leader. Unlike these one sided studies, Costello takes a