Preferred Shelf Number:
B BLACK
First Title value, for Searching:
Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
First Author value, for Searching:
Jackson, Joe, 1955- author.
ISBN:
9780374253301
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Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xviii, 599 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ;c24 cm
Contents:
"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 -- Besieged.
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