Black Elk Speaks

Name: Black Elk Speaks
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ISBN: 9780803283855

ISBN-10: 0803283857

ISBN-13: 9780803283855

Edition: 3rd 2004

Authors: John G. Neihardt

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Black Elk Speaksis the story of the Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during the momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk met the distinguished poet, writer, and critic John G. Neihardt (1881–1973) in 1930 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and chose Neihardt to tell his story. Neihardt understood and conveyed Black Elk’s experiences in this powerful and inspirational message for all humankind. When Black Elk received his great vision, white settlers were invading the Lakotas’ homeland, decimating buffalo herds, and threatening to extinguish the Lakotas’ way of life. The Lakotas fought fiercely to retain their freedom…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 11/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Foreword




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



John G. Neihardt beyond Black Elk




Neihardt and Black Elk




A letter written by John G. Neihardt to Julius House, 10 August 1930



A great Indian poet, 20 June 1931