Black Elk speaks /
"Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk's searing visions of the unity of h...
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Lincoln, Nebraska :
University of Nebraska Press : Bison Books,
2014.
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| Edition: | Complete edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The offering of the pipe
- Early boyhood
- The great vision
- The bison hunt
- At the soldier's 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
- Letter / from John G. Neihardt to Julius House, August 10, 1930
- Gallery of the drawings / by Standing Bear, Black Elk's friend
- Letter / from John G. Neihardt to Nick Black Elk, 6 November 1930
- "A Great Indian Poet" from Of Making Many Books, June 20, 1931
- "John G. Neihardt and Nicholas Black Elk" / by Raymond J. DeMallie
- "John G. Neihardt beyond Black Elk" / by Alexis N. Petri
- "Neihardt and Black Elk" / by Lori Utecht
- Comparison of the transcript and draft of "Origin of the Peace Pipe"
- Lakota words used in the text.
