Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, as told through John G. Neihardt (Flaming Rainbow) by Black Elk, Standing Bear, John G. Neihardt

Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, as told through John G. Neihardt (Flaming Rainbow)

Black Elk, Standing Bear, John G. Neihardt

280 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Black Elk Speaks is a 1932 book by John G. Neihardt, an American poet & writer, who relates the story & spirituality of Black Elk, an Oglala Lakota medicine man. It was based on conversations by Black Elk with the author & translated f...

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