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Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition
by John G. Neihardt
Because I have read "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", I'm familiar with some of the events and the people mentioned by Black Elk in this transcription of his life story by John Neihardt. Black Elk was present at the Battle of Little Bighorn and at the ghost dances at Pine Ridge. He knew Crazy Horse and toured with Buffalo Bill's show in the US and in England. His story of his visions, what they meant, and his vocation as a medicine man among the Lakota form the spiritual part of the book. While the book is touted as a spiritual work for all humankind, I think that Black Elk would be pretty clear that the visions were specifically for his people, the Lakota. I would be interested in checking the original transcriptions on which this book is based since Neihardt is known to have embellished the language. I read this book for my 2016 Reading Challenge "read a book about an indigenous culture" (Bustle Reads).