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<p><b>Winner of </b><b> the Society of American Historians' Francis Parkman Prize</b><br><b>Winner of the PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography</b><br><b>Best Biography of 2016, <i>True West</i> magazine <br></b><b>Winner of the Western Writers of America 2017 Spur Award, Best Western Biography</b><br><b>Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography</b><br><b>Long-listed for the Cundill History Prize</b><br><b>One of the Best Books of 2016, <i>The Boston Globe</i></b><br><br>The epic life story of the Native American holy man who has inspired millions around the world<br><br>Black Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial <i>Black Elk Speaks</i>. Adapted by the poet John G. Neihardt from a series of interviews with Black Elk and other elders at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, <i>Black Elk Speaks</i> is one of the most widely read and admired works of American Indian literature. Cryptic and deeply personal, it has been read as a spiritual guide, a philosophical manifesto, and a text to be deconstructed—while the historical Black Elk has faded from view.<br><br>In this sweeping boo

Author

Joe Jackson

Publisher

Picador / Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250141255

Subjects

History, Biography, Social Science

Rating

4.31 / 5 (91 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13