Black Elk Speaks
John Gneisenau Niehardt
John G. Niehardt's Black Elk Speaks follows Nicholas Black Elk's development as a Sioux holy man. After white settlers invade their homeland, slaughter buffalo herds, and threaten the Native American way of life, the Sioux nation is forced onto a reservation. Including the battle at Little Bighorn and the massacre at Wounded Knee, writer and poet John G. Niehardt tells this story as a history of a Native American nation and a spiritual testament for all humankind.