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Black Elk Speaks is a 1932 book by John G. Neihardt, an American poet and writer, who relates the story of Black Elk, an Oglala Lakota medicine man.Black Elk spoke in Lakota and Black Elk's son, Ben Black Elk, who was present during the talks, translated his father's words into English. [1]
John Gneisenau Neihardt (January 8, 1881 – November 3, 1973) was an American writer and poet, amateur historian and ethnographer.Born at the end of the American settlement of the Plains, he became interested in the lives of those who had been a part of the European-American migration, as well as the Indigenous peoples whom they had displaced.
Black Elk came from a long lineage of medicine men and healers. His father was a medicine man, as were his paternal uncles. Black Elk was born into an Oglala Lakota family in December 1863 along the Little Powder River (at a site thought to be in the present-day state of Wyoming).
Brown’s keen interest in the traditions of Native Americans led him to seek out Black Elk, who had already told his life story in the book, Black Elk Speaks. In 1947, three years before Black Elk's death, Brown lived with the Lakota Sioux holy man for a year while recording his account of the "seven rites of the Oglala Sioux".
Hilda Neihardt (1916–2004) was one of her father John G. Neihardt's "comrades in adventure," and at the age of 15 accompanied him as "official observer" to meetings with Black Elk, the Lakota holy man whose life stories were the basis for her father's book, Black Elk Speaks and for her own later works.
Benjamin Black Elk (17 May 1899 – 22 February 1973) [3] [2] of the Oglala Lakota people was an actor and educator known as the "fifth face" of Mount Rushmore. The son of Black Elk and Kate Black Elk, Benjamin played an uncredited role in the 1962 film How the West Was Won .
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Standing Bear is perhaps best known for his artwork, including illustrating the 1932 edition of Black Elk Speaks. [1] Standing Bear was born in 1859. [2] His father died when he was four, and he lived with his mother, sister, grandparents, and uncle. [2] He was part of the Battle of Little Big Horn, attending the Sun Dance before the battle. [2]
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