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Benjamin Black Elk (17 May 1899 – 22 February 1973) of the Oglala Lakota people was an actor and educator known as the "fifth face" of Mount Rushmore. The son of Black Elk and Kate Black Elk, Benjamin played an uncredited role in the 1962 film How the West Was Won.
4 mag 2024 · Who Was Ben Black Elk? Ben Black Elk was a respected oral historian, educational activist, and vocal advocate of the Lakota Sioux. He gained widespread recognition as the “Fifth Face of Mount Rushmore.”
10 ago 2020 · Beginning in the 1950s, Ben Black Elk posed for summer tourists to Mount Rushmore, sometimes appearing in as many as five thousand photographs in a day.
- Andrew Whalen
Black Elk. Heȟáka Sápa, commonly known as Black Elk (baptized Nicholas; December 1, 1863 – August 19, 1950 [1] ), 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.
27 mag 2024 · Ben Black Elk dedicated more than 27 summers to Mount Rushmore, where he tirelessly promoted and preserved Lakota culture. This remarkable feat earned him the sobriquet “The Fifth Face of Mount Rushmore.”
Black Elk Speaks, the autobiography of Black Elk, dictated by Black Elk in Sioux, translated into English by his son Ben Black Elk, written by John G. Neihardt, and published in 1932. The work became a major source of information about 19th-century Plains Indian culture.
Seen through the camera viewfinders of thousands of visitors to Mount Rushmore, Benjamin Black Elk, dress-ed in traditional Sioux clothing, seemed to epitomize the popular image of the Sioux Indian.
