Nicholas Black was a participant in the battles of Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee. He performed with the Buffalo Bill Show in Europe and danced before Queen Victoria. But he was also a visionary and Lakota medicine man. He became an extraordinarily effective Catholic catechist as well as a revered advocate of Lakota spirituality.

Our presenter, Fr. Joseph Daoust, S.J., recently completed a decade as Superior of the Jesuits ministering with the Lakota in South Dakota. The Bishop of South Dakota appointed Fr. Joe as Episcopal Delegate to lead the diocesan investigation of Black Elk's life and holiness, the results of which are now in the Vatican where the Cause for Black Elk's Canonization is ongoing. Fr. Daoust has worked in Rome, taught at the University of Detroit and been Provincial Superior of the Detroit Province of Jesuits.