| Edition |
Twenty-first-century edition. |
| Description |
xxix, 230 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Vine Deloria, Jr. -- 1. The offering in the pipe -- 2. Early boyhood -- 3. The great vision -- 4. The bison hunt -- 5. At the soldiers' town -- 6. High Horse's courting -- 7. Wasichus in the hills -- 8. The fight with Three Stars -- 9. The rubbing out of Long Hair -- 10. Walking the black road -- 11. The killing of Crazy Horse -- 12. Grandmother's land -- 13. The compelling fear -- 14. The Horse Dance -- 15. The dog vision -- 16. Heyoka ceremony -- 17. The first cure -- 18. The powers of the bison and the elk -- 19. Across the Big Water -- 20. The spirit journey -- 21. The Messiah -- 22. Visions of the other world -- 23. Bad trouble coming -- 24. The butchering at Wounded Knee -- 25. The end of the dream -- 26. Author's postscript -- App. 1. Letter from Neihardt to Black Elk, 6 November 1930 -- App. 2. Comparison of the transcript and draft for the Origin of the Peace Pipe -- App. 3. Lakota words in the text. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Subject |
Black Elk, 1863-1950.
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Oglala Indians -- Biography.
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Oglala Indians -- Religion.
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Lakota Indians.
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| Added Author |
Neihardt, John G., 1881-1973.
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| ISBN |
0803213093 cloth alkaline paper |
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0803261705 paperback alkaline paper |
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