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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.

by Black Elk, 1863-1950.

Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1961.

Black Elk, 1863-1950.

Oglala Indians -- Biography.

Oglala Indians -- Religion.

Lakota Indians.

280 pages illustrations 21 cm.

The Offering of the Pipe -- Early Boyhood -- The Great Vision -- The Bison Hunt -- At the Soldiers town -- High Horses Courting -- Wasichus in the Hills -- The Fight with Three Stars -- The Rubbing Out of Long Hair -- Walking the Black road -- The Killing of Crazy Horse -- Grandmother's Land -- The Compelling Fear -- The Horse Dance -- The Dog Vision -- Heyoka Ceremony -- The First Cure -- The Powers of the Bison and the Elk -- Across the Big Water -- The Spirit Journey -- The Messiah -- Visions of the Other World -- Bad Trouble Coming -- The Butchering at Wounded Knee -- The End of the Dream -- Author's Postscript.

A Sioux medicine man who lived through the times of the Plains Indian wars tells the story of his life.

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