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Black Elk Speaks is 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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Black Elk: warrior and medicine man of the Oglala Sioux
- Standing Bear: Add a description of this character.
- Crazy Horse
- Iron Hawk
First Sentence edit
MY FRIEND, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?
Table of Contents edit
Preface
I. The Offering of the Pipe
II. Early Boyhood
III. The Great Vision
IV. The Bison Hunt
V. At The Soldiers' Town
VI. High Horse's Courting
VII. Wasichus in the Hills
VIII. The Fight With Three Stars
IX. The Rubbing Out of Long Hair
X. Walking the Black Road
XI. The Killing of Crazy Horse
XII. Grandmother's Land
XIII. The Compelling Fear
XIV. The Horse Dance
XV. The Dog Vision
XVI. Heyoka Ceremony
XVII. The First Cure
XVIII. The Powers of the Bison and the Elk
XIX. Across the Water
XX. The Secret Journey
XXI. The Messiah
XXII. Visions of the Other World
XXIII. Bad Trouble Coming
XXIV. The Butchering at Wounded Knee
XXV. The End of the Dream
Author's Postscript
About the Book and Its Author
Original Illustrations
Authors & Contributors edit
- John Gneisenau Neihardt (Author)
- Black Elk (Author)
- John G. Neihardt (Author)
- Craig Sodaro
- Christopher Sergel
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 978.0049752440092
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