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Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by Black Elk

4.0

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A first person, moving account of the genocide of the Lakota Sioux. As a Native American oral history, it is told in that tradition, with spiritual elements, dreams, and symbols. It is easy enough to follow the story, but it is not just the narrative, but voice behind it that really give this power. This is not the history you read for dates and number of fatalities. This is the book you read to get inside the mind of a culture that is being systematically eliminated by another culture.

Used for Anthropology 130: World Cultures at JCCC