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Ready to spark something? Download the Sims 4 and play for free. In 18 In 1886, a 26-year-old Oglala Lakota man named Black Elk, a cousin of Crazy Horse, learned that some of his tribesmen were joining the Wild West.

I thought I ought to go, Black Elk said, because I might learn some of the secret of

the Wasichu that would help my people somehow. I even thought that if the Wacichu's had a better way,

then maybe my people should live that way. In the Lakota dialect, the word Wacich translates literally to, takes the fat. But it means greedy. And it was

the Lakota term for white man. Black Elk joined Buffalo Bill when the Wild West played Madison Square Garden for four months.

Black Elk then said,

After I had been there for a while, I was like a man who had never had a vision. I felt dead and my people seemed lost. I did not see

anything to help my people. Three months later, Black Elk and the cast of the Wild West were in London, where they were invited to

perform for Queen Victoria. Black Elk said, Grandmother England was little but fat and

we liked her because she was good to us.

She said, if you belong to me, I would not let them take you around in a show like this.

When the Wild West left London and performed in Manchester,

Black Elk and three other Lakota performers got lost in the city

and missed the boat when it left.

They bought train tickets back to London,

where they joined the show of one of Buffalo Bill's

competitors, a man called Mexican Joe.

Black Elk traveled with Mexican Joe to Paris and Germany and to see Mount Vesuvius in Italy.

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