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Black Elk : the life of an American visionary Cover Image Book

Black Elk : the life of an American visionary / Joe Jackson.

Jackson, Joe, 1955- (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9780374253301
  • ISBN: 0374253307
  • Physical Description: xviii, 599 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-564) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: "a sort of a preacher" -- Part I: If you're not good, the Wasichus will get you -- Chosen -- A casualty of the hundred slain -- The great vision -- Resurrection -- The Black Hills -- "It is war" -- When the wasichus come -- Part II: Childhood's end -- The burning road -- Killing Crazy Horse -- Grandmother's land -- The fear -- Dances with thunder -- Part III: The messiah will come again -- The land of darkness -- The making of a medicine man -- The "show man" -- The entrance to hell -- La belle epoque -- The messiah will come again -- Dances with ghosts -- Wounded Knee -- "There will be a better day to die" -- Part IV: "What is an Indian?" -- The underground -- Black robe days -- Vanishing Americans -- Black Elk speaks -- Defenders of the faith -- Disciples -- Epilogue: besieged.

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