Record details

• 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.

Content descriptions

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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Subject:

Black Elk, 1863-1950.
Oglala Indians > Biography.
Oglala Indians > Religion.
Lakota Indians.

Genre:

Biographies.