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The sacred pipe : Black Elk's account of the seven rites of the Oglala Sioux / recorded and edited by Joseph Epes Brown.

by Black Elk, 1863-1950, author.

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Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, [1953]

Oglala Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.

Oglala Indians -- Religion.

Civilization of the American Indian series ; v. 36.

xx, 144 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Preface / Joseph Epes Brown -- Foreword / Black Elk -- The gift of the sacred pipe -- The keeping of the soul -- The releasing of the soul -- Inipi: the rite of purification -- Hanblecheyapi: crying for a vision -- Wiwanyag wachipi: the sun dance -- Hunkapi: the making of relatives -- Ishna ta awi cha lowan: preparing a girl for womanhood -- Tapa wanka yap: the throwing of the ball.

Portrait photographs reproduced in plates: Black Elk, 1947 / photograph by J.E. Brown -- Little Warrior, 1947 / photograph by J.E. Brown -- Sitting Bull / [from the] Bureau of American Ethnology -- Seven Sioux warrior who participated in the battle of the Little Big Horn: left to right, top row: Iron Hail, age 90; High Eagle, age 88; Iron Hawk, age 99; Little Warrior, age 80; bottom row: Comes Again, age 86; Pemmican, age 85; John Sitting Bull, age 80 / Illuminated Foto-Ad Service, Sioux Falls, S.D.

An account of how the Oglala Sioux have come to know God, nature, and their fellow men.

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