Word: neihardt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BLACK ELK SPEAKS-John G. Neihardt -Morrow...
Though Moses and the Hebrew prophets cornered the Western market long ago, other races, other men have produced scripture too. Such a one is Black Elk, holy medicine man of the Ogalala Sioux. His life story, told to and superbly set down by Poet Neihardt, has the quality of true scripture. More generic than literature, which reflects individual men's spirits, it reflects whatever divine image there may be in a tribe, a race...
...Author, Poet Laureate of Nebraska, Author Neihardt knows his Indians well. To the Omahas he is Tae Nuga Zhinga (Little Bull Buffalo); to the Sioux, Igimou Chicakala (Little Cat). He first went to interview Black Elk to get tales of great Chief Crazy Horse; returned for an extended stay to write down the old man's own story. At its conclusion the party went to the top of Harney Peak. There the medicine man delivered his final lamentation for his people; from a droughty sky he called rain to accompany his tears. Black Elk's friend Standing Bear...