About this title: This is the autobiography of Black Elk, a Lakota Indian fighting for freedom at the end of the 19th century, as told to author John G. Neihardt. While his tale glows with eyewitness accounts of historic events and Lakota Sioux customs, the heart of the book is Black Elk's soulful visions of a better future for his people and, by extension, for all humanity. He urges us to follow the "good red road" of interconnectedness and respect for all life, to honor the past without becoming mired in it, and to regard the earth as sacred. It is this emphasis on earth-centered spirituality that has made ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date Published: 1988-08-01
ISBN-13:9780803283596ISBN:0803283598
Description: Very Good+ Interior bright and clean, light wear to covers, several price stickers, and price on back cover has been punched out. read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780803283596ISBN:0803283598
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Corners curled, minor markings in text. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 298 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13:9780803283596ISBN:0803283598
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13:9780803283596ISBN:0803283598
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Binding: Softcover
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ISBN-13:9780803283596ISBN:0803283598
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Binding: Softcover
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Binding: Softcover
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"Black Elk commands respect for the old ways. Imagaine watching Crazy Horse go down along with the hope of your people. John Neihardt did a great job putting the wholistic truth together. The genocide of the Native Americans was so mass, compared to the small holocaust of the jews, and nobody knows this. It is so inlighting to read about our culture threw Native eyes instead of threw the Eurpean Scholar Eyes... Just refreshing combined with anger for our history..."
"Black Elk's was an atypical member of the Sioux Nation, due in large part to his youthful visions and eventual emergence as a Sioux Medicine man with prophetic and healing powers. His remarkable experiences provide a deep insight into the Sioux relationship with nature. By the time John Nehring, author of Black Elk Speaks, interviews Black Elk, he is near the end of his life. Black Elk is risking much in revealing the sacred details of his life story to a white man, but feels it necessary in order to preserve his sacred visions and message for posterity. His visions consist of detailed symbolism and instructions he received from his Grandfathers. These instructions constitute Black Elk's life mission, a mission that in his twilight years he feels he has failed to accomplish. Unable to turn his nation from an inevitable course of subjugation and occupation by the white man, Black Elk dies alone, in a square house on the Sioux reservation in South Dakota, believing he has lost all divine power and that he has ultimately failed to restore the blossoming tree of life within his nation's circular hoop. His last hope is to put his vision, and ultimately his life in print to the betterment of those who come after him."
"I read this so long ago but remember parts of it pretty vividly...of course I didn't remember to add it until one of my friends did, but still. Black Oak's explanations of the Lakota vision quests and sun ceremony are particularly interesting, especially in contrast to modern American religious practices and beliefs."
"I found this book on an amazon search and it started my collection. I've always been on the side of the Native American, but to learn first hand about their lives and their point of view of the battles has been an education. A must for anyone wanting to learn American history from 'the other side'."
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