Black Elk speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux / as told through John G. Neihardt (Flaming Rainbow) Illustrated by Standing Bear.
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TextSeries: A Bison book, 119Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1961Description: 280 pages : illustrationContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0803251416 [paperback]Subject(s): Black Elk. 1863-1950 | Oglala Indians -- Biography | Oglala Indians -- Religion | Lakota Indians| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Contents: I. The offering of the pipe -- II. Early boyhood -- III. The great vision -- IV. The bison hunt -- V. At the soldier's town -- VI. High horse's courting -- VII. Wasichus in the hills -- VIII. The fight with three stars -- IX. The rubbing out of long hair -- X. Walking the black road -- XI. The killing of crazy horse -- XII. Grandmother's land -- XIII. The compelling fear -- XIV. The horse dance -- XV. The dog vision -- XVI. Heyoka ceremony -- XVII. The first cure -- XVIII. The powers of the bison and the elk -- XIX. Across the big water -- XX. The spirit journey -- XXI. The Messiah -- XXII. Visions of the other world -- XXIII. Bad trouble coming -- XIV. The butchering at wounded knee -- XXV. The end of the dream.
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