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Black Elk Speaks

Book review

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Joe Rogan JRE Talks Black Elk Speaks, Ghost Dance, and American Indian Plight

Book adaptation

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Black Elk Speaks by John G Neihardt

 

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The Mythic World of the Navajo:The Vision of Black Elk

Black Elk Speaks is a 1932 book by John G. Neihardt, an American poet and writer, who relates the story of Black Elk, an Oglala Lakota medicine man. Black Elk spoke in Lakota and Black Elk's son, Ben Black Elk, who was present during the talks, translated his father's words into English. Neihardt made notes during these talks which he later used as the basis for his book.