Black Elk Speaks

Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux as told through John G. Neidhart, (Flaming Rainbow), University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 1993

It was originally written in 1932. Now it is a "venerated classic" per the forward by Vine Deloria Junior (xii)

"In the 1960s interest began to focus on Indians and some of the spiritual realities they seemed to represent." (p. xii)

The book is the story of Black Elk's development as a Medicine Man until Wounded Knee at which point he sort of lost his sacred power.

From other sources we will see that this book was a primary source for counterculture looks and indulgences in Native American spirituality.