The sixth grandfather : Black Elk's teachings given to John G. Neihardt

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The Sixth Grandfather CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS FOREWORD PREFACE A Note on the Editing ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART ONE— NICHOLAS BLACK ELK AND JOHN G. NEIHARDT: AN INTRODUCTION PART TWO— THE 1931 INTERVIEWS Black Elk's Vision 1— Boyhood (1863–72) The Old Men Tell Their Ages Black Elk Tells of His Parentage Fire Thunder Tells of the Fetterman Fight Black Elk Tells How Creeping Cured the Snowblinds Standing Bear Tells How the Indians Felt about the Whites Black Tail Deer Tells How the Indians Felt about the Whites Fire Thunder Tells How the Indians Felt about the Whites Black Elk Tells about Boys' Games Standing Bear Tells about Fighting the White Soldiers Black Elk Tells about Camping on the Rosebud Fire Thunder Tells about the Wagon Box Fight Black Elk Tells of Hearing Voices Fire Thunder Tells of the Attack on the Wagon Train Standing Bear Tells of the Death of High Shirt's Mother Black Elk Tells of His First Vision 2— The Great Vision (1873) Black Elk Falls Ill The Two Men Take Black Elk up into the Clouds Black Elk is Shown the Horses of the Four Directions The Bay Horse Leads Black Elk to the Cloud Tipi of the Six Grandfathers Black Elk Walks the Black Sacred Road from West to East and Vanquishes the Spirit in the Water Black Elk Walks the Red Sacred Road from South to North Black Elk Receives the Healing Herb of the North and the Sacred Tree is Established at the Center of... Black Elk Kills the Dog in the Flames and Receives the Healing Herb of the West Black Elk is Taken to the Center of the Earth and Receives the Daybreak Star Herb Black Elk Receives the Soldier Weed of Destruction Black Elk Returns to the Six Grandfathers The Spotted Eagle Guides Black Elk Home 3— Youth (1873-75) Standing Bear Tells of the Buffalo Hunt Black Elk Tells of the Hunt and of Games of Endurance Black Elk Tells about His Illness Black Elk's Grandfather Explains the Meaning of Wasichu Black Elk's Grandfather Makes Him a Bow and Arrows The Visit to Fort Robinson Camping in the Black Hills Standing Bear Tells of the Movement of Bands in Spring 1874 Black Elk Tells of Chips's Warning and the Return to Fort Robinson The Story of Watanye 4— Walking the Black Road (1875-76) Black Elk Tells about the 1875 Black Hills Council Standing Bear Tells about the Black Hills Black Elk Tells of Joining Crazy Horse's Camp and the Killing of the Crow Horse Thief Black Elk's Father's Story of the 1875 Black Hills Council Black Elk Tells about Attacking a Wagon Train near War Bonnet Creek Iron Hawk Tells about the 1875 Black Hills Council Standing Bear Tells about the 1875 Black Hills Council Standing Bear Tells about the Sun Dance on the Rosebud, June 1876 Iron Hawk Tells about the Rosebud Battle Standing Bear Tells about the Dead Soldiers Black Elk Tells about the Bear Medicine Ceremony Black Elk Tells about the Custer Battle Standing Bear Tells about the Custer Battle Iron Hawk Tells about the Custer Battle Black Elk Tells about the Dead Soldiers and the Siege of Reno's Men 5— The Scattering of the People (1876-81) The Celebration of Custer's Defeat Fleeing from the Soldiers The Return to Fort Robinson and the Killing of Crazy Horse Crazy Horse The Escape to Canada and Fighting with the Crows Black Elk Finds Buffalo during the Famine The Return to the United States Living in Fear of the Thunder-Beings 6— Walking the Red Road (1881-85) The Horse Dance The Move to Pine Ridge The Vision of the Thunder-Beings The heyoka Ceremony Black Elk's First Cure The Buffalo Ceremony The Elk Ceremony 7— Seeing the World of the Wasichus (1886-89) Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show The Trip across the Great Water Grandmother England's Jubilee Wandering in Europe Spirit Journey Home Return to Pine Ridge 8— The Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee (1889-91) The Messiah's Dance Black Elk's Ghost Dance Visions Trouble with the Soldiers The Wounded Knee Massacre Black Elk is Wounded The Camp in the Stronghold The End of the Fighting 9— Teaching Flaming Rainbow (1931) Origin of the Peace Pipe Prayer to go with the Vision The Pipe The Indians and the White People The Sacred Hoop Origin of the Names Oglala and Brulé Moon, Sun, and Stars Buffalo Names Making the Tree Bloom Ceremony on Harney Peak PART THREE— THE 1944 INTERVIEWS 10— December 5 Slow Buffalo's Council The Great Race and the Origin of the Bow and Arrow The Origin of Fire Making Dispersal of the People and the Origin of Warfare Discovery of the Horse The War Party Saved by the Skull The Indians' Relationship to the Animals The Seven Important Things The Domestication of Dogs The Minnesota Sioux How Man Came to the Earth 11— December 6 Lakota Government Games and the Education of Children Moving Camp Red Hail and the Two Suitors 12— December 7 The Killing of Sixty-Six Flatheads Wooden Cup, the Prophet Pouting Butte The Story of High Horse's Courting The Young Man Who Pretended to Be a Ghost 13— December 8 Crow Butte The Shoshones Kill Thirty Lakotas The Woman Four Times Widowed The Dog Who Saved the People The Dog Whose Warning was not Heeded The Cheyennes Run the Shoshones over a Bank Flying By's Most Difficult Experience The Old Bull's Last Fight 14— December 11 The Oglala War Party that Met a Crazy Buffalo River Names Little Powder Rescues His Family from the Shoshones Sharp Nose makes Peace between the Arapahoes and the Crows Telling the Future 15— December 12 The Santee Owl Wizard Caring for Babies Twins Burial and Mourning The Girl Who was Buried Alive Eating and Giving Thanks to the Food Making a Candidate (wicasa* yatapika) 16— December 13 The Two Murderers Insanity Falling Star APPENDIX A— CONCORDANCE APPENDIX B— PHONETIC KEY BIBLIOGRAPHY Archival Sources Printed Material PHOTO SECTION INDEX A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z