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Presents 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. It offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk’s searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth…

Black Elk Speaks

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  • Paperback

    424 pages

  • Release Date

    1 March 2014

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9780803283916
ISBN-10:0803283911
Author:John G. Neihardt, Philip J. Deloria, Vine Deloria
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:Bison Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:424
Edition:Complete Ed
Release Date:1 March 2014
Weight:662g
Dimensions:33mm x 154mm x 227mm
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Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt - ISBN: 9780803283916
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Critics Review

“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

“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

About The Author

John G. Neihardt

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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