BLACK ELK SPEAKSJohn G. Neihardt Morrow ($3.75).
Though Moses and the Hebrew prophets cornered the Western market long ago, other races, other men have produced scripture too. Such a one is Black Elk, holy medicine man of the Ogalala Sioux. His life story, told to and superbly set down by Poet Neihardt, has the quality of true scripture. More generic than literature, which reflects individual men's spirits, it reflects whatever divine image there may be in a tribe, a race, Man.
Amerindian Black Elk was born in 1863, in time to see and take part in much of the fighting that drove his...
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