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These stories, and countless more, offer insight into this extraordinary man whose cause for canonization is now underway at the Vatican. Adapted by the poet John G. 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. 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.

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New Religions: Emerging Faiths and Religious Cultures in the Modern World provides insightful global perspectives on the emergent faith communities and new traditions and movements of the last two centuries. Readers will gain access to the information necessary to explore the significance, complexities, and challenges that modern religious traditions have faced throughout their history and that continue to impact society today.

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Working from Enid's typescripts of her stenographic records of the interviews, Neihardt produced a seamless life story, beginning with Black Elk's birth and ending with the massacre at Wounded Knee in The process of collaboration and composition has been fully described, and the transcripts published, by Raymond J.

Thus, the words so frequently attributed to Black Elk alone were in fact the product of a complex multi-stage process of translation. In addition to the issues of linguistic translation, the collaboration raises serious questions about cultural mediation, since autobiography is not a traditional Native American genre. The book is an "Indian autobiography," as distinct from an "autobiography by an Indian" Krupat, p.

The former is produced by collaboration between an unacculturated Native and a Euro-American; the latter is produced single-handedly by an acculturated Native. Although Neihardt was a poet rather than an anthropologist, his collaboration with Black Elk is an example, more generally, of the ethnographic scenario of collaborative life writing, in which the author comes from Western culture, while the native subject of the book comes from a non-Western culture.

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