SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Black Elk

1863 - 1950

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Heȟáka Sápa, commonly known as Black Elk (baptized Nicholas; December 1, 1863 – August 19, 1950), 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. He survived the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Black Elk has received more than 808,844 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Black Elk is the 361st most popular social activist (down from 336th in 2019), the 4,185th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,234th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 810k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Black Elk ranks 361 out of 840. Before him are Peter Arshinov, Flora Brovina, Robert Catesby, Kazimierz Świątek, Felix Manz, and Zinaida Portnova. After him are Hector Hodler, Karl Ludwig Sand, Vasily Ignatenko, Petro Grigorenko, Pattimura, and Clara Barton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Black Elk ranks 92. Before him are Enrique Fernández Arbós, Hans Aanrud, Richard Mollier, Scipione Riva-Rocci, Arabo, and Klara Zamenhof. After him are Herbert James Draper, Richard F. Outcault, Augusto B. Leguía, Lucien Pissarro, Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and Francis Younghusband. Among people deceased in 1950, Black Elk ranks 96. Before him are Santiago Casares Quiroga, Ernst Wiechert, Dimitri Uznadze, Sergei Khudyakov, Théodore Steeg, and Ryuzo Shimizu. After him are Aliya bint Ali, Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao, Vasily Gordov, Guilhermina Suggia, Joanni Perronet, and Arthur L. Newton.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Black Elk ranks 4,185 out of 20,380. Before him are Mike Porcaro (1955), Stanley Clarke (1951), Don Adams (1923), Joe Walsh (1947), Jackie Earle Haley (1961), and Alice Coltrane (1937). After him are Robert Sapolsky (1957), Friz Freleng (1906), Adrienne Barbeau (1945), Jennifer Warnes (1947), Ona Zee (1951), and Harrison Ford (1884).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Black Elk ranks 38. Before him are Amelia Bloomer (1818), Abbie Hoffman (1936), Edna Parker (1893), Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899), Sumner Paine (1868), and Dorothy Day (1897). After him are Clara Barton (1821), Lucretia Mott (1793), Marsha P. Johnson (1945), Otto Warmbier (1994), Claudette Colvin (1939), and Alice Paul (1885).

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