Black Elk speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux / as told through John G. Neihardt (Flaming Rainbow) ; introduction by Vine Deloria, Jr. ; illustrated with drawings by Standing Bear and a portfolio of photos.
His life story and the story of the Oglala Sioux during the decades of the Little Big Horn, the ghost-dance rising, and the Wounded Knee massacre.
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©1979.
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Table of Contents:
- The offering of the pipe
- Early boyhood
- The great vision
- The bison hunt
- At the soldiers' town
- High Horse's courting
- Wasichus in the hills
- The fight with Three Stars
- The rubbing out of Long Hair
- Walking the black road
- The killing of Crazy Horse
- Grandmother's land
- The compelling fear
- The horse dance
- The dog vision
- Heyoka ceremony
- The first cure
- The powers of the bison and the elk
- Across the Big Water
- The spirit journey
- The messiah
- Visions of the other world
- Bad trouble coming
- The butchering at Wounded Knee
- The end of the dream
- Author's postscript.