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Raymond J. DeMallie
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"Black Elk Speaks is widely hailed as a religious classic, one of the best spiritual books of the modern era and the bestselling book of all time by an American Indian. This inspirational and unfailingly powerful story reveals the life and visions of the Lakota healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863?1950) and the tragic history of his Sioux people during the epic closing decades of the Old West. In 1930, the aging Black Elk met a kindred spirit, the famed...
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"[Eagle Voice Remembers] is John Neihardt's mature and reflective interpretation of the old Sioux way of life. He served as a translator of the Sioux past, whose audience has proved not to be limited by space or time. Through Neihardt's writings Black Elk, Eagle Elk, and other old men who were of that last generation of Sioux to have participated in the old buffalo-hunting life and the disorienting period of strife with the U.S. Army found...
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©2014
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Originally known as the "Omaha Dance," and arriving among the Dakota of Spirit Lake by 1870, the Grass Dance is much more than a dance. It is a male fraternal organization with warrior society roots. Louis Garcia, a scholar of Dakota cultural history, documents the organization, ceremonies, and dance halls of the Grass Dance, including the development of a women's dance society and the transition into modern powwows.