Black Elk's Story: Distinguishing Its Lakota PurposeUniversity of New Mexico Press, 1991 - 165 páginas "Black Elk Speaks, the book of John G. Neihardt's interviews with the Lakota visionary, is one of the most successful popularizations of Native American religious thought. Using the original transcripts of the interviews, Rice points beyond Black Elk Speaks to an increased awareness of difference between Christianity and the Lakota spiritual tradition. To understand these differences Black Elk must be cleanly disentangled from Neihardt. Niehardt was a Christian poet with a typological belief in providential progress, culminating in the enlightenment of all peoples in universal love. Black Elk was more complex, at various times using the language of a Lakota traditionalist, a Catholic catechist, or a synthesis of both. Rice argues that Black Elk retained throughout his life the priorities of his original Lakota identity as healer, visionary, and warrior and held to one constant purpose--the transmission of the Lakota ways to the Lakota people. This indispensable study is the first to discuss thoroughly all the major Black Elk material and the various critical approaches to it. The result is a rich dialogue with Black Elk and Lakota culture that will be of value to literary critics, anthropologists, and other students of Native America culture"--Back cover. |
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... lodge plead for help from external spirits when the Kingdom is within the Church and within the person ? It is grossly demonstrative to take off one's clothes before enter- ing the sweat lodge to show humility , unlike entering " the ...
... lodge plead for help from external spirits when the Kingdom is within the Church and within the person ? It is grossly demonstrative to take off one's clothes before enter- ing the sweat lodge to show humility , unlike entering " the ...
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... lodge would affect the efficacy of the medicine , and that if it were exposed to such influence for any considerable time its power would be en- tirely destroyed . ( Densmore 252 ) Physical health depends on focusing the mind upon a set ...
... lodge would affect the efficacy of the medicine , and that if it were exposed to such influence for any considerable time its power would be en- tirely destroyed . ( Densmore 252 ) Physical health depends on focusing the mind upon a set ...
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... lodge faces west ( generally , although Black Elk has it facing east in The Sacred Pipe 32 ) , because it effects spiritual rebirth , a new beginning in the darkness of its womb shaped space . The renewal is brought about by water ...
... lodge faces west ( generally , although Black Elk has it facing east in The Sacred Pipe 32 ) , because it effects spiritual rebirth , a new beginning in the darkness of its womb shaped space . The renewal is brought about by water ...
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Who was Black Elk? | 1 |
Distancing Black Elk and Neihardt | 15 |
Neihardts Christian Matrix | 36 |
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