Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
Record details
- ISBN: 1250141257
- ISBN: 9781250141255
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Physical Description:
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xviii, 599 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm - Edition: First Picador Paperback edition
- Publisher: New York : Picador / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [499]-564) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Dramatis personae -- 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 époque ; 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 -- Time line. |
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Subject: | Black Elk 1863-1950 Oglala Indians Biography Oglala Indians Religion Lakota Indians |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | E 99 .O3 J33 2017 | 30775305534894 | General Collection | Available | - |