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History of the Inter-Cooperative Council of Ann Arbor

Black Elk House

Black Elk, located at 902 Baldwin Avenue, was acquired along with Luther in 1986 as part of a deal with the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, who used to occupy it. It is notable for being one of the only houses in the ICC to be explicitly vegetarian.

Heȟáka Sápa, commonly known as Black Elk, was a holy man of the Oglala Sioux. His memoirs, dictated to white ethnologists, are considered definitive Western sources about Sioux culture and traditions