Upon his return, he was swept up in the traditionalist Ghost Dance movement and shaken by the Massacre at Wounded Knee. government troops, Black Elk killed his first man at the Little Bighorn, witnessed the death of his second cousin Crazy Horse, and traveled to Europe with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. Born in an era of rising violence between the Sioux, white settlers, and U.S. In this sweeping book, Joe Jackson provides the definitive biographical account of a figure whose dramatic life converged with some of the most momentous events in the history of the American West. Cryptic and deeply personal, it has been read as a spiritual guide, a philosophical manifesto, and a text to be deconstructed-while the historical Black Elk has faded from view. Neihardt from a series of interviews with Black Elk and other elders at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, Black Elk Speaks is one of the most widely read and admired works of American Indian literature. The epic life story of the Native American holy man who has inspired millions around the worldīlack Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial Black Elk Speaks. One of the Best Books of 2016, The Boston Globe Long-listed for the Cundill History Prize Winner of the Western Writers of America 2017 Spur Award, Best Western Biographyįinalist, National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography Winner of the PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biographyīest Biography of 2016, True West magazine Winner of the Society of American Historians' Francis Parkman Prize
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