DENVER — Jennifer Black Elk remembers her nephew, Wanbli Oyote Vigil, as the kind of person to drop everything to help a loved one move back across state lines. Twice.
She remembers him as a doting uncle and a bright mind whose suggestions for her book still steer her writing. As a formerly devout Christian exploring his Lakota heritage, identity and spirituality.
“He really grasped that spirituality that we have,” Black Elk said. “It was something that was really personal to him.”
