Black Elk

Joe Jackson's compelling biography of Black Elk, the Native American holy man who was known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial, Black Elk Speaks. The poet John Neihardt drew from a series of interviews to create a text that is one of the most widely read and admired works of American Indian literature. It has been read as a spiritual guide, a philosophical manifesto, and a text to be deconstructed--while the historical Black Elk has faded from view. In this sweeping book, Jackson provides the definitive biographical account of a figure whose dramatic life converged with some of the most momentous events in the history of the American West.