Eagle Voice Remembers

Author : John G. Neihardt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803283985

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Eagle Voice Remembers by John G. Neihardt Pdf

“[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 a literary voice. What they say chronicles a dramatic transition in the life of the Plains Indians; the record of their thoughts, interpreted by Neihardt, is a legacy preserved for the future. It transcends the specifics of this one tragic case of cultural misunderstanding and conflict and speaks to universal human concerns. It is a story worth contemplating both for itself and for the lessons it teaches all humanity.”—from the introduction by Raymond J. DeMallie In her foreword Coralie Hughes discusses John G. Neihardt’s intention that this book, formerly titled When the Tree Flowered, be understood as a prequel to his classic Black Elk Speaks. In this new edition David C. Posthumus adds clarity through his annotations, introducing Eagle Voice Remembers to a new generation of readers and presenting a fresh understanding for fans of the original.

Author : John G. Neihardt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496224491

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Eagle Voice Remembers by John G. Neihardt Pdf

“[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 a literary voice. What they say chronicles a dramatic transition in the life of the Plains Indians; the record of their thoughts, interpreted by Neihardt, is a legacy preserved for the future. It transcends the specifics of this one tragic case of cultural misunderstanding and conflict and speaks to universal human concerns. It is a story worth contemplating both for itself and for the lessons it teaches all humanity.”—from the introduction by Raymond J. DeMallie In her foreword Coralie Hughes discusses John G. Neihardt’s intention that this book, formerly titled When the Tree Flowered, be understood as a prequel to his classic Black Elk Speaks. In this new edition David C. Posthumus adds clarity through his annotations, introducing Eagle Voice Remembers to a new generation of readers and presenting a fresh understanding for fans of the original.

Author : Linda Lay Shuler
Publisher : Lake Union Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : Zuni Indians
ISBN : 1477807519

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Voice of the Eagle by Linda Lay Shuler Pdf

Traveling through a hostile territory with their newborn son, Kwani and her mate must fight to defend themselves and their treasure against vicious enemies and hostile spirits.

Author : Black Elk,John G. Neihardt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803283916

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Black Elk Speaks by Black Elk,John G. Neihardt Pdf

Reveals the life of Lakota healer Nicholas Black Elk as he led his tribe's battle against white settlers who threatened their homes and buffalo herds, and describes the victories and tragedies at Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee. Reprint.

Author : Linda Lay Shuler
Publisher : Signet Book
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451176812

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Voice of the Eagle by Linda Lay Shuler Pdf

In the sequel to She Who Remembers, Kwani returns to the Cicuye village as the wife of Tolonqua, a hunting chief in the 13th century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Winds of Change by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joe Jackson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374709617

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Black Elk by Joe Jackson Pdf

Winner of the Society of American Historians' Francis Parkman Prize Winner of the PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Best Biography of 2016, True West magazine Winner of the Western Writers of America 2017 Spur Award, Best Western Biography Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography Long-listed for the Cundill History Prize One of the Best Books of 2016, The Boston Globe The epic life story of the Native American holy man who has inspired millions around the world Black Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial Black Elk Speaks. 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, Black Elk Speaks 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. In this sweeping book, Joe Jackson provides the definitive biographical account of a figure whose dramatic life converged with some of the most momentous events in the history of the American West. Born in an era of rising violence between the Sioux, white settlers, and U.S. government troops, Black Elk killed his first man at the Little Bighorn, witnessed the death of his second cousin Crazy Horse, and traveled to Europe with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. Upon his return, he was swept up in the traditionalist Ghost Dance movement and shaken by the Massacre at Wounded Knee. But Black Elk was not a warrior, instead accepting the path of a healer and holy man, motivated by a powerful prophetic vision that he struggled to understand. Although Black Elk embraced Catholicism in his later years, he continued to practice the old ways clandestinely and never refrained from seeking meaning in the visions that both haunted and inspired him. In Black Elk, Jackson has crafted a true American epic, restoring to its subject the richness of his times and gorgeously portraying a life of heroism and tragedy, adaptation and endurance, in an era of permanent crisis on the Great Plains.

Author : Rani-Henrik Andersson,David C. Posthumus
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806191645

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Lakhota by Rani-Henrik Andersson,David C. Posthumus Pdf

The Lakȟóta are among the best-known Native American peoples. In popular culture and even many scholarly works, they were once lumped together with others and called the Sioux. This book tells the full story of Lakȟóta culture and society, from their origins to the twenty-first century, drawing on Lakȟóta voices and perspectives. In Lakȟóta culture, “listening” is a cardinal virtue, connoting respect, and here authors Rani-Henrik Andersson and David C. Posthumus listen to the Lakȟóta, both past and present. The history of Lakȟóta culture unfolds in this narrative as the people lived it. Fittingly, Lakhota: An Indigenous History opens with an origin story, that of White Buffalo Calf Woman (Ptesanwin) and her gift of the sacred pipe to the Lakȟóta people. Drawing on winter counts, oral traditions and histories, and Lakȟóta letters and speeches, the narrative proceeds through such periods and events as early Lakȟóta-European trading, the creation of the Great Sioux Reservation, Christian missionization, the Plains Indian Wars, the Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee (1890), the Indian New Deal, and self-determination, as well as recent challenges like the #NoDAPL movement and management of Covid-19 on reservations. This book centers Lakȟóta experience, as when it shifts the focus of the Battle of Little Bighorn from Custer to fifteen-year-old Black Elk, or puts American Horse at the heart of the negotiations with the Crook Commission, or explains the Lakȟóta agenda in negotiating the Fort Laramie Treaty in 1851. The picture that emerges—of continuity and change in Lakȟóta culture from its distant beginnings to issues in our day—is as sweeping and intimate, and as deeply complex, as the lived history it encompasses.

Author : John G. Neihardt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9357928006

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The River and I by John G. Neihardt Pdf

Author : John Gneisenau Neihardt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1920-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803257236

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The Splendid Wayfaring by John Gneisenau Neihardt Pdf

With the publication of The Splendid Wayfaring in 1920, John G. Neihardt sought to restore the reputation of a mountain man who went far in opening up the American West. The exciting narrative begins in 1822, when Smith ascended the Missouri River in the first fur-trading expedition of William H. Ashley and Andrew Henry, and ends in 1831, when he was killed by Comanche Indians on the Cimarron River. In the intervening years Smith became the first explorer to recognize South Pass as the gateway to the Far West, the first overlander to reach California and travel up the coast to the Columbia River, and the first white man to cross the Sierra Nevada and the Great Basin from west to east. The Splendid Wayfaring follows in novelistic detail the history-making adventures of Smith and his companions.

Author : JOHN GNEISENAU. NEIHARDT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033025062

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WHEN THE TREE FLOWERED by JOHN GNEISENAU. NEIHARDT Pdf

Author : John G. Neihardt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803283923

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Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt Pdf

Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk’s searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth, conveyed by John G. Neihardt, have made this book a classic that crosses multiple genres. Whether appreciated as the poignant tale of a Lakota life, as a history of a Native nation, or as an enduring spiritual testament, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable. Black Elk met the distinguished poet, writer, and critic John G. Neihardt in 1930 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and asked Neihardt to share his story with the world. Neihardt understood and conveyed Black Elk’s experiences in this powerful and inspirational message for all humankind. This complete edition features a new introduction by historian Philip J. Deloria and annotations of Black Elk’s story by renowned Lakota scholar Raymond J. DeMallie. Three essays by John G. Neihardt provide background on this landmark work along with pieces by Vine Deloria Jr., Raymond J. DeMallie, Alexis Petri, and Lori Utecht. Maps, original illustrations by Standing Bear, and a set of appendixes rounds out the edition.

Author : John G. Neihardt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0803283784

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A Cycle of the West by John G. Neihardt Pdf

A Cycle of the West rewards its readers with a sweeping saga of the American West and John G. Neihardt's exhilarating vision of frontier history. It is infused with wonder, nostalgia, and a keen appreciation of epic history. Unquestionably the masterpiece of the poet who has been called the "American Homer," A Cycle of the West celebrates the land and legends of the Old West in five narrative poems: The Song of Three Friends (1919), The Song of Hugh Glass (1915), The Song of Jed Smith (1941), The Song of the Indian Wars (1925), and The Song of the Messiah (1935). This unforgettable epic of discovery, conquest, courage, and tragedy speaks movingly and resoundingly of a unique American experience.

Author : John Gneisenau Neihardt
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0282540628

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When the Tree Flowered by John Gneisenau Neihardt Pdf

Excerpt from When the Tree Flowered: The Fictional Biography of Eagle Voice, a Sioux Indian A one-room log cabin, with an indolently smoking chimney, squatted in sullen destitution a hundred yards away. Before the door a ramshackle wagon stood waiting for nothing with its load of snow. Down yonder in the brushy draw an all-but-roofless shed stared listlessly upon the dull February sky. With a man-denying look, the empty reservation landscape round about lay hushed and bluing in the cold. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Literature
ISBN : IOWA:31858020813493

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The Arizona Quarterly by Anonim Pdf