01806cam a2200325 i 4500 296123268 TxAuBib 20161103120000.0 160408s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016016695 9780374253301 0374253307 eng rda TxAuBib rda Jackson, Joe, 1954- Black Elk [BOOK] : the life of an American visionary / Joe Jackson. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2016] xviii, 599 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references 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 willcome 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 -- Epilogue: besieged. 20161103. Black Elk (Heȟáka Sápa) 1863-1950. Lakota Indians. Oglala Indians Biography. Oglala Indians Religion. Biographies.