Research Catalog

Title

Black Elk speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux / Nicholas Black Elk and John G. Neihardt ; foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr. ; with illustrations by Standing Bear.

Author

Black Elk, 1863-1950.

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Neihardt, John G., 1881-1973.

Description

xxix, 230 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

• "Black Elk Speaks is the 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.".
• "This special edition features all three prefaces to Black Elk Speaks that John G. Neihardt wrote at different points in his life, a map of Black Elk's world, a reset text, a listing of Lakota words newly translated and reproduced using the latest orthographic standards, and color paintings by Lakota artist Standing Bear that have not been widely available for decades."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Oglala Indians > Biography
• Lakota Indians
• Black Elk, 1863-1950
• Oglala Indians > Religion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Vine Deloria, Jr. -- 1. The Offering in the Pipe -- 2. Early Boyhood -- 3. The Great Vision -- 4. The Bison Hunt -- 5. At the Soldiers' Town -- 6. High Horse's Courting -- 7. Wasichus in the Hills -- 8. The Fight with Three Stars -- 9. The Rubbing Out of Long Hair -- 10. Walking the Black Road -- 11. The Killing of Crazy Horse -- 12. Grandmother's Land -- 13. The Compelling Fear -- 14. The Horse Dance -- 15. The Dog Vision -- 16. Heyoka Ceremony -- 17. The First Cure -- 18. The Powers of the Bison and the Elk -- 19. Across the Big Water -- 20. The Spirit Journey -- 21. The Messiah -- 22. Visions of the Other World -- 23. Bad Trouble Coming -- 24. The Butchering at Wounded Knee -- 25. The End of the Dream -- 26. Author's Postscript -- App. 1. Letter from Neihardt to Black Elk, 6 November 1930 -- App. 2. Comparison of the Transcript and Draft for the Origin of the Peace Pipe -- App. 3. Lakota Words in the Text.

ISBN

• 0803213093 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0803261705 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

00036382

OCLC

• ocm43701684
• SCSB-3971474

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries