UCSB Black Elk Speaks Discussion

I’m working on a religion question and need guidance to help me learn.

What do you find to be religious in the first four chapters of Black Elk Speaks? Be sure to consider rituals, oral tradition, prophecy, healing, visions, and hunting. Provide specific examples of those things you find to be particularly religious and reasons why. What assumptions about the category “religion” informed your selection of examples? Is “religion” an adequate framework for understanding Black Elk Speaks? What are the limits of the category?