Black Elk

The Life of an American Visionary

De: Joe Jackson

Narrado por: Traber Burns

Here is 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 around the world from his 1932 testimonial, Black Elk Speaks. Adapted by the poet John Neihardt from a series of interviews, it 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, Black Elk killed his first man at Little Big Horn, 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, and instead chose the path of a healer and holy man, motivated by a powerful prophetic vision that haunted and inspired him, even after he converted to Catholicism in his later years.

In Black Elk, Jackson has crafted a true American epic, restoring to Black Elk 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.

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©2016 Joe Jackson (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Same heartbreak as others

I am always so saddened at the treatment of the American Indian. I am disgusted at the notion that mankind will find any means to force others to be like them. It was no different in the American war against the Indians.

Fantastic

So good, interesting and sad.
Well narrated and easy to follow. All around well done

A must read !!

This is one of those life changing books. So rare that a Medicine Man would share his life and personal struggles with the world. This should be required reading in schools.

Gripping yet tragic

So much to ponder in the history of America. And every time I think we have learned from the past and are finally heading for peace, we find ourselves surrounded by extreme greed and selfishness that exhibits itself as people believing they are entitled to more than others for whatever reasons they conjure up.

We are all more alike than we are different. Black Elk was a visionary who was able to see the truth and work for peace but sadly failed because of the rampant greed of his day. Unfortunately we have not come very far. We will only live in peace when we are able to see all as truly equal.

The rest of U.S. History ...

I very much enjoy learning of the deep spiritual disciplines of the Lakota. This is the history we did not receive in our formal education.