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Author:

Jackson, Joe, 1955- author.

Title:

Black Elk : the life of an American visionary / Joe Jackson.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xvii, 599 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

Black Elk,--1863-1950.
Oglala Indians--Biography.
Oglala Indians--Religion.
Lakota Indians.
Black Elk,--1863-1950.
Lakota Indians.
Oglala Indians.
Oglala Indians--Religion.
Biographies
Biography.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Prologue: "a sort of a preacher" -- If you're not good, the wasichus will get you -- Chosen -- A casualty of the hundred slain -- The great vision -- Resurrection -- The Black Hills -- "It is war" -- When the wasichus come -- Childhood's end -- The burning road -- Killing Crazy Horse -- Grandmother's land -- The fear -- Dances with thunder -- The messiah will come again -- The land of darkness -- The making of a medicine man -- The "show man" -- The entrance to hell -- La belle epoque -- The messiah will come again -- Dances with ghosts -- Wounded Knee -- "There will be a better day to die" -- "What is an Indian?" -- The underground -- Black robe days -- Vanishing Americans -- Black Elk speaks -- Defenders of the faith -- Disciples -- Epilogue: besieged.

Summary:

"Describes the life of the Native American holy man who fought at Little Big Horn, witnessed the death of his cousin Crazy Horse, traveled to Europe as part of Buffalo BillÆs Wild West show and became a traditionalist in the Ghost Dance movement,"--NoveList.

ISBN:

0374253307
9780374253301

OCLC:

(OCoLC)946579928

LCCN:

2016016695

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