Black Elk speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux / as told through John G. Neihardt (Flaming Rainbow) ; illustrated by Standing Bear.

Rev. Pocket Book ed.

New York : Pocket Books, 1972, ©1959.

xvi, 238 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm

BEIN 2018 6690: Title page verso: 9th printing ... October, 1975. Imperfect: Damp-stained. Paperbound. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.

Originally published by William Morrow & Company, 1932.

An account of the life of the Oglala Sioux medicine man, Black Elk, with particular emphasis on his vision of the meaning of life for the Indians of the western plains.

English

June 01, 2002

Biographies.