Black Elk Speaks (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Black Elk, John Greenleaf Neihardt
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Nineteenth century, Autobiography, Religion, Spiritual life or spirituality, Native Americans or American Indians, Christ figures or saviors
- Locales: Black Hills, SD, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, SD
Critical Evaluation:
Black Elk Speaks is the work of two collaborators: Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux holy man who tells his life story, and John G. Neihardt, a white man sensitive to Indian culture, who interviewed Black Elk at the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1931 and fleshed out and gave artistic form to Black Elk’s account. Black Elk tells the adventure story of a young Sioux boy as he grows into manhood. He had early memories of a father wounded in the Fetterman Fight against the Wasichus (white men), which at first seemed only like a bad dream that he did not...
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