Black Elk : the life of an American visionary / Joe Jackson.
Black Elk : the life of an American visionary / Joe Jackson.
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Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2016]
Call Numbers
G 2017/412
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xviii, 599 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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'...
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Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2016]
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2016]
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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 Bill's Wild West show and became a traditionalist in the Ghost Dance movement"-- NoveList.
"Black Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial Black Elk Speaks. Adapted by the poet John G. Neihardt from a series of interviews with Black Elk and other elders at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, Black Elk Speaks is one of the most widely read and admired works of Am...
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Black Elk : the life of an American visionary / Joe Jackson.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [499]-564) and index.
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G 2017/412
Record Identifier
74VKVOye80jO
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ISBN
0374709610 (ebook)
9780374253301 (hardback)
0374253307 (hardback)
9780374709617 (ebook)
DDC
978.0049752440092
MMS ID
991024061707302626
