Ogalala Term Analysis

...narrative, providing his audience with background on his family: he is a Lakota of the Ogalala band, and he is the fourth person of his family to be named Black Elk.... (full context)

...road through Black Elk’s people’s country to where they’d found the yellow metal, but the Ogalalas fear that a road would scare away the bison and attract even more Wasichus. The... (full context)

...the top of it. The Wasichu soldiers surround the pole and want to fight the Ogalalas in retaliation, but their chief at the time, Red Cloud, tells the soldiers that grown... (full context)

...fighting around the Santee camp in a cloud of dust. Black Elk returns to the Ogalala camp to show his mother his first scalp, and she “[gives] a big tremolo” in... (full context)

...the Grandmother’s Land. Black Elk decides that it’s time to return to his people, the Ogalalas, and fulfill the destiny given to him in his vision. Black Elk and the Brules... (full context)

...people. Black Elk reaches the Pine Ridge Agency that the soldiers have built for the Ogalalas, and he stays there through the winter of 1881, when he turns 18 years old.... (full context)

...people for three years. In 1886, he hears that the Wasichus want a band of Ogalalas for a show that will be put on “across the  big water.” Black Elk decides... (full context)

Black Elk returns to the Ogalalas at Wounded Knee after dancing with the Brules. One day, they hear that soldiers from... (full context)

...who force them to go back to Pine Ridge. Most of Brules refuse, but the Ogalalas obey the chiefs. On their way to Pine Ridge, they learn that Sitting Bull was... (full context)