Nicholas Black Elk’s text Black Elk Speaks was an account transcribed in 1932 about his prophetic vision as an Olgala Lakota in 1883 in which it was revealed that he was the redeemer of his people. One major theme that runs through the text is how animals function as symbols in the Lakota religion. Indeed, the constant power given by animals in the text is symbolic of the Lakota’s religious outlook that all life is fundamental interconnected between human beings and animals.
Religions have their own perspective on the connection between human being and animals, or the power that animals might transmit in a religion. In the text Black Elk Speak by Nicholas Black, the fuction of animals is primary with each step that Black Elk takes throughout