Black Elk : the life of an American visionary

Author

Joe Jackson

Call Number

• 921 B6273J (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2016]

Physical Description

xvii, 599 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Contents

• Prologue: "a sort of a preacher"
• 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
• Childhood's end
• The burning road
• Killing Crazy Horse
• Grandmother's land
• The fear
• Dances with thunder
• 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"
• "What is an Indian?"
• The underground
• Black robe days
• Vanishing Americans
• Black Elk speaks
• Defenders of the faith
• Disciples
• Epilogue: besieged.