![]() ![]() 1858–1974, Western Historical Manuscript Collection, Columbia, Missouri the John G. ![]() Includes bibliographical references and index. ∞ This paper meets the requirements of the ANSI/NISO Z39.48–1992 (Permanence of Paper) ISBN: 978-0-87081-679-6 (hardcover) ISBN: 978-1-64642-078-0 (paperback) ISBN: 978-1-64642-143-5 (ebook) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Holloway, Brian R., 1952– Interpreting the legacy : John Neihardt and Black Elk speaks / Brian R. The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State University, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Regis University, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University, and Western Colorado University. His memoirs, his culture, worldview and rituals are definitely worth preserving.Interpreting the Legacy Interpreting the Legacy JOHN NEIHARDT and BLACK ELK SPEAKS B R I A N H O L L O W A Y university press of colorado © 2003 by the University Press of Colorado Published by the University Press of Colorado 245 Century Circle, Suite 202 Louisville, Colorado 80027 All rights reserved First paperback edition 2020 Printed in the United States of America The University Press of Colorado is a proud member of the Association of University Presses. He gained wisdom and patience to become a healer and a spiritual person of his people. Black Elk participated in the Battle of Little Big Horn and survived through the Wounded Knee massacre. Still, it stays one of the longest and most precise descriptions of the experience of a Lakota wise man. The story of Neihardt was criticized later, because some of the critics doubted its accuracy and ability of a foreigner to depict the Lakota culture and not distort it in favor of his own understanding of it. ![]() As one of Neihardt’s daughters later told, Black Elk adopted them all into his family. ![]() Gradually, the two men became close friends. This vision is full of peace and union with all the living beings and existence in general and can be portrayed as the Lakota understanding of divine and transcendence.īlack Elk told Neihardt a lot about his culture and visions, describing his duty as a healer and the rituals he uses to aid the sick. The central event of this story is the one talk of Black Elk when he tells Neihardt about his great vision, where he saw himself as a “sixth grandfather”, an embodiment of the great ancestor of all the nature and mankind. He went there with his two daughters and all the book is dedicated to his own description of what he saw there and the words of Black Elk, translated to Neihardt by his son, Ben Black Elk. Neihardt was one of the few who was granted permission to enter Lakota reservation and talk to the people who still remember the specific rituals he wanted to depict. Black Elk Speaks is the nonfiction book that reflects the talks of the healer of the Lakota people named Black Elk. ![]()
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