Black Elk Speaks : The Complete Edition (Paperback)

from nmele

So I realized I'd heard about this book for many years but never read it--there it was in the free books box at a local used book store, so I took it and read it. I found it an engrossing read, but mostly a moving personal witness by a man who felt, at the end of his life, that he had been given ...

from Stahl-Ricco

A powerful book, and a sad book. Black Elk tells of his life and in that story we learn so much! His peoples names for the months, the significance of circles to the native people, their customs and traditions. Even legends are told in here, like the chapter titled "High Horse's Courting" which I...

from ces317

This book is the memoir of a Lakota Indian named Black Elk and the treatment of the Native Americans in the late 1800s and early 1900s by white settlers. This book was one of the most moving books I have ever read because of the fact that it is completely unbiased. Black Elk relayed his story to ...

from kslade

Interesting account from a Lakota man who lived at the time of Crazy Horse and Custer. Includes religous practices.

from tokenn

I grew up in the rez and I really wish I could go back and talk to those old timers. But I was a kid and didn't care about such things. I really like this book. I could hear Black Elk talking. It was written how the old timers talked. I had a hard time keeping up with the chapters where he descri...