02008cam a2200301 4500 388797172 TxAuBib 20170916120000.0 010530t19881932||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780803283596 0803283598 TxAuBib Black Elk Speaks : Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux / as told through John G. Neihardt (Flaming Rainbow) ; introduction by Vine Deloria, Jr. Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, 1988. ©1932. xix, 298 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Reprint of 1932 ed. published by W. Morrow & Co., New York. Introduction -- The offering of the pipe -- Early boyhood -- The great vision -- The bison hunt -- At the soldier's town -- High Horse's courting -- Wasichus in the hills -- The fight with Three Stars -- The rubbing out of Long Hair -- Walking the black road -- The killing of Crazy Horse -- Grandmother's land -- The compelling fear -- The horse dance -- The dog vision -- Heyoka ceremony -- The first cure -- The powers of the bison and the elk -- Across the Big Water -- The spirit journey -- The messiah -- Visions of the other world -- Bad trouble coming -- The butchering at Wounded Knee -- The end of the dream -- Author's postcript -- Appendices -- The origin of the peace pipe. In order to preserve his traditional culture, this Sioux seer related its values and traditions to the wider world. Accounts of his visions and of the tribal dances he carried out according to those visions are particularly vivid and notable. 20010530. Black Elk 1863-1950. Oglala Indians Religion. Indians of North America Great Plains. Lakota Indians. Teton Indians. Biographies and Autobiographies. Neihardt, John G, 1881-1973, (John Gneisenau.)