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Black Elk Speaks
by John Neihardt
Acollaborative effort, Black Elk Speaks was the result of a series of interviews between Nick Black Elk, an American Indian from a Sioux tribe, and John Neihardt, ...
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John G. Neihardt is most widely known for his book about a Sioux holy man, Black Elk Speaks (1932), but he considered himself a poet and designated as his masterwork the five-part epic, A Cycle of the...
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John Neihardt's reputation rests on five historical epics begun in 1912, completed in 1941, and collected in the 656-page volume, A Cycle of the West (1949). The heroes are the white trappers who open...
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Throughout his seventy-five-year career as a writer, John G. Neihardt's aspiration was to be the epic poet of the American West; he is remembered chiefly, however, for his work as an editor. His ambit...
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Critical Essay by Lucile F. Aly
[Black Elk Speaks] is told in language that suggests Indian idiom, as in Neihardt's Omaha stories. Short sentences, simple syntax and connective words, Indian ex...
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Critical Essay by Sally Mccluskey
[The essay from which this excerpt is taken was read at the annual meeting of the Western Literature Association in October 1971.]
Black Elk Speaks has been many thin...
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Black Elk Speaks
John Gneisenau Neihardt
Critical Essay by Lucile F. Aly
