Scope and Contents note

Images of Lucy (Black Elk) Looks Twice (1907-1978), Black Elk's only daughter and wife of Leo Looks Twice, and her daughter, Norma Regina (ca. 1940-1978). They were probably photographed while serving as consultants in the research for Michael F. Steltenkamp's book, Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala.

Biographical/Historical note

Michael F. Steltenkamp, SJ, is an anthropologist and religious studies scholar. After earning a masters degree in folklore and a Master of Divinity degree, he taught high school for three years on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where he also first served as a priest and was ordained as a deacon. He acquired a PhD in anthropology from Michigan State University and his doctoral thesis was later published as Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala. After teaching and doing campus ministry at Nouvel Catholic Central in Michigan, Steltenkamp taught for three years at Bay Mills Community College, a two-year tribal college chartered by the Bay Mills Indian Community of Michigan. In about 1994, he became a professor of anthropology and religious studies at Wheeling Jesuit University. He has also held temporary appointments as Bruegeman Chair in Ecumenical Studies at Xavier University and Chair of Jesuit Studies at Loyola University in Chicago.