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Black Elk : the life of an American visionary / Joe Jackson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2016]Edition: First editionDescription: xviii, 599 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374253301
  • 0374253307
  • 9780374709617
  • 0374709610
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 978.004/9752440092 23
LOC classification:
  • E99.O3 J33 2016
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Book Fort Scott Public Library Adult Non-Fiction Fort Scott Public Library Adult Books 978.004 Jack (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 35326000387801
Book Iola Public Library Adult Non-Fiction Iola Public Library Adult Books 978.00497 Jackson, Joe (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Purchased with funds from the Frank and Helen Thompson Memorial. 34311002619865

Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-564) and index.

Prologue: "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.

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