Black Elk speaks
by DeMallie, Raymond J., Deloria, Philip Joseph, Neihardt, John Gneisenau
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This inspirational and unfailingly powerful story reveals the life and visions of the Lakota healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863?1950) and the tragic history of his Sioux people during the epic closing decades of the Old West. In 1930, the aging Black Elk met a kindred spirit, the f…
The author presents a study of the life of the Dakota Sioux, written in 1944, that describes their origins, language families, culture, and unique kinship system that defined them as a people.