Black Elk Tribe

The  was a tribe of Native Americans in Red Dead Revolver.

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The Black Elk is a tribe of Native Americans (probably with some relation to the Navajo) residing near The Diablo Mines. They have had a long lasting feud with the older Red Wolf Tribe, which intensified after the Black Elks sold themselves out to General Diego and defiled the Red Wolf's sacred burial grounds at the Diablo Mine. The selling out was made by the tribe's greedy leader, Grizzly.

During the events of Revolver, the Black Elk is working alongside the Mexican Army at the mountains surrounding the Diablo Mine and its territory. The Red Wolf Shadow Wolf killed the tribe's leader Grizzly after finding out Diego and his men captured his cousin, Red Harlow at the mines. Grizzly also possessed the keys needed to unlock Harlow's cell door. When another one of the prisoners from the Mine, Buffalo Soldier, escapes with the help from Wolf, the Black Elk and Diego's men tried their best to stop him from crossing over the Mexican-US border at Hell's Pass. Buffalo succeeded, however and killed many Black Elks. However, he was unaware that Brimstone's Mayor Griffon was working along with Diego for the gold and thus, the Black Elk tribe and had Buffalo imprisoned.

The Black Elk eventually disbanded and died out after losing it's last leader Running Paw in 1913 after he was killed by some outlaws in Mississippi.

Known Members

 * Grizzly (leader)
 * Running Paw (second leader)
 * Standing Snake
 * Sleeping Foot

Trivia

 * Some of the Black Elk members during the mission "Hell Pass" share Running Moon's character model, ironically, he is the chief of Red Wolf Tribe, Elk's rivals.
 * Standing Snake, while working for and serving the Black Elk, was also a part of Bad Bessie's Gang until her death.
 * In Red Dead Revolver 3dn edition, Black Elk's role as Bad Bessie's gang's role was replaced by Indian Gang.
 * Their leader, Grizzly, is replaced with an actual bear. In this case, Brumas the Bear.
 * Dutch van der Linde's part of the tribe and Brumas' don't seem to be working together, meaning they are a separate gang.
 * There was a real life medicine man named Nicholas Black Elk whose job was to convert his fellow Native Americans to Catholics along with his children. If that doesn't sound like Christian fundamentalism, I don't know what does.