Black Elk speaks
by Black Elk, John Gneisenau Neihardt · first published 1961
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His life story and the story of the Oglala Sioux during the decades of the Little Big Horn, the ghost-dance rising, and the Wounded Knee massacre.
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Black Elk Speaks
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