A review by toebean5
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by Black Elk

3.0

Good for Americans to read- more spirituality-based than I anticipated, but alot of food for thought. This makes for good discussion in historiography-circles, especially, since the whole thing is kind of fourth-hand information, tens of years later. But the whole notion of historical memory has raised alot of questions in recent books, so nothing's new. This is also a good introduction to the story of the Lakota, Pine Ridge, Wounded Knee, the Ghost Dance, and more, for people without whose textbooks skimmed over this ugly part of American history.