Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-364) and index.
Contents:
Sources and suggestions for further study of Black Elk and Lakota culture / Raymond A. Bucko Speaking through others: Black Elk speaks as testimonial literature / R. Todd Wise -- Black Elk's significance in American culture / Amanda Porterfield -- Akicita of the thunder: horses in Black Elk's vision / Julian Rice -- John Neihardt and Black Elk speaks: a personal reminiscence / George W. Linden -- Black Elk and John G. Neihardt / Hilda Neihardt, R. Todd Wise -- The retrospective on Black Elk: holy man of the Oglala / Michael F. Steltenkamp -- A postcolonial reading of Black Elk / Dale Stover -- Just what is cultural appropriation, anyway? The Ethics of reading Black Elk speaks / Frances W. Kaye -- Inipi, the purification rite (sweat lodge), and Black Elk's account in The sacred pipe / Gregory P. Fields -- Black Elk and the spiritual significance of Paha sapa (the Black Hills) / Alexandra Witkin-New Holy -- Dakota philosophy / George W. Linden -- The great vision of Black Elk as literary ritual / R. Todd Wise -- The new missiology and Black Elk's individuation / Paul B. Steinmetz -- Black Elk and the Jesuits / Ross Enochs -- Sources and suggestions for further study of Black Elk and Lakota culture / Raymond A. Bucko
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