Black Elk Speaks
I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people’s dream died there. It was a beautiful dream . . . Black Elk Speaks is a remarkable autobiographical account that tells the story of Black Elk, a Native American healer and spiritual leader of the Oglala Lakota Sioux tribe. The book was initially published in 1932 and is based on conversations between Black…