Black Elk Speaks by John G Neihardt

Black Elk Speaks by John G Neihardt

Presents the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (18631950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century. It offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elks searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth, conveyed by John G. Neihardt, have made this book a classic that crosses multiple genres.

“Black Elk Speaks is an extraordinarily human document—and beyond that the record of a profoundly spiritual journey, the pilgrimage of a people toward their historical fulfillment and culmination, toward the accomplishment of a worthy destiny”—N. Scott Momaday

 

“An American classic.”—Western Historical Quarterly

 

“If any great religious classic has emerged in [the twentieth] century or on this continent, it must certainly be judged in the company of Black Elk Speaks.”—from Vine Deloria Jr.’s foreword

John G. Neihardt (1881–1973) is the author of several classics, including A Cycle of the West and Eagle Voice Remembers, both available in Bison Books editions. He was named Nebraska’s first poet laureate and foremost poet of the nation by the National Poetry Center in 1936.

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ISBN 13	9780803283916
ISBN 10	0803283911
Title	Black Elk Speaks
Author	John G Neihardt
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Nebraska Press
Year published	2014-03-01
Number of pages	424
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.