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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8268511, member: 20201&quot;]<b>1973 Mount Rushmore</b></p><p><b>with Benjamin Black Elk Portrait</b></p><p><b>Medallic Art Co. Bronze Medal</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459195[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459196[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Black Elk was born into an Oglala Lakota family in December 1863 along the Little Powder River. ( Montana ) He was a second cousin of the war chief Crazy Horse.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459199[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>When Black Elk was nine years old, he was suddenly taken ill; he lay prone and unresponsive for several days. During this time he had a great vision in which he was visited by the Thunder Beings, and taken to the &quot;Six Grandfathers&quot; — spiritual representatives of the six sacred directions: west, east, north, south, above, and below.</p><p>Mount Rushmore was originally known to the Lakota Sioux as &quot;The Six Grandfathers&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>In his vision, Black Elk is taken to the center of the earth, and to the central mountain of the world. Black Elk was residing at the axis of the six sacred directions.</p><p><br /></p><p>As Black Elk related:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>He worked among his people as a healer and medicine man.</p><p>In 1887, Black Elk traveled to England with Buffalo Bill&#039;s Wild West.</p><p>On May 11, 1887, the troupe put on a command performance for Queen Victoria, whom they called &quot;Grandmother England.&quot; Black Elk was among the crowd at her Golden Jubilee.</p><p>Black Elk participated in the fighting at Wounded Knee in 1890. While on horseback, he charged soldiers and helped to rescue some of the wounded. He arrived after many of Spotted Elk&#039;s (Big Foot&#039;s) band of people had been shot, and he was grazed by a bullet to his hip.</p><p><br /></p><p>This medal depicts a portrait of his son. Benjamin Black Elk (1899–1973), became known as the &quot;Fifth Face of Mount Rushmore&quot;, posing in the 1950s and 1960s for tourists at the memorial. Benjamin played an uncredited role in the 1962 film How the West Was Won.</p><p><br /></p><p>What Mt Rushmore looked like before it was completed.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459197[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Today.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459198[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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