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Essay Galaxy - Black Elk Speaks
Black Elk Speaks
The book Black Elk Speaks was written in the early 1930's by author John
G. Neihardt, after interviewing the medicine man named Black Elk. Neihardt was
already a published writer, and prior to this particular narrative he was at
work publishing a collection of poems titled Cycle of the West. Although he was
initially seeking infor-mation about a peculiar Native American religious
movement that occurred at the end of the 19th century for the conclusion his
poetry collection, Neihardt was instead gifted with the story of Black Elk's
life. Black Elk's words would explain much about the nature of wisdom as well
as the lives of the Sioux and other tribes of that period.
The priest or holy man calling himself Black Elk was born in the
December of 1863, to a family in the Ogalala band of the Sioux. Black Elk's
family was well known, and he counted the famed Crazy Horse as a fr....
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