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| Genre/Form: | Interviews |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Black Elk lives. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c2000 (OCoLC)606356667 |
| Named Person: | Black Elk; Esther Black Elk DeSersa |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Esther Black Elk DeSersa; Hilda Neihardt Petri; Lori Utecht; et al |
| ISBN: | 080323340X 9780803233409 0803262078 9780803262072 |
| OCLC Number: | 43657033 |
| Description: | xvii, 168 p., [6] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | List of Illustrations -- Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- Black Elk family: Legacy / Benjamin Black Elk -- Father and Grandfather / Benjamin Black Elk -- Growing up -- School days -- Mourning and teaching -- Life for the community / Esther Black Elk DeSersa -- Reclaiming the legacy / Olivia Black Elk Pourier -- Honor of a Pipe / Aaron DeSersa -- On the front lines / Clifton DeSersa -- Lakota past, present, and future -- Working -- Use and misuse of Lakota Religion -- Many paths -- Lakota legends and stories -- Women and men/men and women -- Grandfather Black Elk: We remember -- Grandfather's healing -- Caring for grandfather -- Afterword -- Appendix: Black Elk family tree -- Notes -- Index. |
| Responsibility: | by Esther Black Elk DeSersa ... [et al.] ; edited by Hilda Neihardt and Lori Utecht ; introduction by Charles Trimble. |
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Abstract:
I was at my grandfather's house, and he was sitting down, getting his pipe ready early in the morning, and here was Father Sialm knocking on the door. They opened the door, and he came in, and he saw my grandfather with the pipe. Father Sialm grabbed the pipe and said, "This is the work of the devil!" And he took it and threw it out the door on the ground. My grandfather didn't say a word. He got up and took the priest's prayer book and threw it out on the ground. Then they both looked at each other, and nobody said one word that whole time.
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