Black Elk Speaks Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

Name: Black Elk Speaks Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
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ISBN: 9780803261709

ISBN-10: 0803261705

ISBN-13: 9780803261709

Edition: 21st 2000

Authors: John G. Neihardt, John Gneisenau Neihardt, Vine Deloria Jr.

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Named one of the ten best spiritual books of the twentieth century by Philip Zaleski of HarperSanFrancisco,Black Elk Speaksis the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk grew up in a time when white settlers were invading the Lakotas' homeland, decimating buffalo herds and threatening to extinguish the Lakotas' way of life. Black Elk and other Lakotas fought back, a dogged resistance that resulted in a remarkable victory at the Little Bighorn and an unspeakable tragedy at Wounded Knee. Beautifully told by the celebrated poet and writer John G. Neihardt,Black Elk…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Edition: 21st
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 8/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 246
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Foreword



Preface to the 1932 Edition


Preface to the 1961 Edition


Preface to the 1972 Edition



The Offering of the Pipe



Early Boyhood



The Great Vision



The Bison Hunt



At the Soldiers' Town



High Horse's Courting



Wasichus in the Hills



The Fight with Three Stars



The Rubbing Out of Long Hair



Walking the Black Road



The Killing of Crazy Horse



Grandmother's Land



The Compelling Fear



The Horse Dance



The Dog Vision



Heyoka Ceremony



The First Cure



The Powers of the Bison and the Elk



Across the Big Water



The Spirit Journey



The Messiah



Visions of the Other World



Bad Trouble Coming



The Butchering at Wounded Knee



The End of the Dream



Author's Postscript



Letter from Neihardt to Black Elk, 6 November 1930



Comparison of the Transcript and Draft for the Origin of the Peace Pipe



Lakota Words in the Text


Index