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"A comprehensive new biography of the fabled Sioux medicine man . . . [It] rattled me . . . [Black Elk's] fate was to survive a rolling catastrophe with eyes wide open, his luck also his curse." ―Walter Kirn, Harper's Magazine"Joe Jackson has expertly taken Black Elk’s life―as narrated by himself in the transcripts of his interviews with Neihardt―and woven that together with other records and histories of him and his times. The result is that Jackson has firmly situated Black Elk in the context of Indian struggles on the plains from 1850 through 1950. He uses Black Elk to bring home the radical changes that confronted most Indians during this time and, in doing so, creates a deeply felt and personal story of loss and change on the plains . . . the long set piece concerning the Battle of the Little Bighorn is among the very best I’ve ever read." ―David Treuer, The Washington Post"Remarkably thorough . . . Jackson’s deep research shows on every page, and his narrative skill makes this long biography a gripping, even thrilling read . . . In this book, he helps bring back a crucial American voice." ―Kate Tuttle, The Boston Globe"Black Elk stands out for its comprehensiveness, wide-ranging historical context, and the author's deftly apposite quotation from contemporary sources . . . In addition to seating Black Elk in his time and in the events he witnessed, Jackson gives a genuine sense of the inner man, the conflict in his soul between his Indian heritage and identity and his clear-sighted, hardnosed understanding of the compromises and capitulations necessary for his and the Lakota's survival . . . Drawing on immense research, Joe Jackson has given us the story of a man and a people whose land, way of life, and culture were the target of a concentrated project of extermination by the United States Government." ―Katherine A. Powers, Critical Mass, the blog of the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors"Remarkably researched and beautifully told . . . Jackson gives us a modern man working his way through the obstacles of the 20th century . . . his research has rewards, shifting in subtle ways the stories we thought we knew." ―Ann Fabian, The National Book Review"An astonishingly rich saga . . . Jackson's biography works to represent 'the flesh-and-blood wicasa wakan' (holy man) . . . We see Black Elk balancing tradition and modernity, with fleeting but vivid scenes of him on a ferris wheel and in a movie house. We hear of struggles within subsequent generations over his legacy and Lakota identity more generally." ―Christine Bold, The Times Literary Supplement "With access to family members of Lakota spiritual leader Black Elk, investigative journalist-historian Joe Jackson's talents as a writer, interviewer and historian are all on full-display in Black Elk, the most evocative, empathetic and comprehensive biography ever written about the Sioux holy man." ―True West magazine, "The Best of the West""Joe Jackson’s important biography of the visionary Black Elk is much more than the story of one man’s life. It is a sweeping, comprehensive, elegantly written history of white and Indian relations; bloody, deadly battles; and the steady, deliberate destruction by the U.S. government of the native culture, language, traditions and way of life . . . Black Elk is a crucial book. It is a rich, engrossing read that will educate, surprise and infuriate." ―Laurie Hertzel, The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)"An exhaustively researched and meticulously detailed biography of Black Elk . . . Drawing on new material culled from interviews with members of Black Elk’s family, Jackson presents the Native American mystic’s life as a story rather than as a dry historical record, offering vivid accounts of historical events at which Black Elk was present . . . Jackson’s account of the great medicine man’s life, legacy, and spiritual journey is especially timely." ―Spirituality and Health magazine"Joe Jackson argues convincingly that Black Elk's life offers rare, substantial evidence of accurate Native American history as opposed to popular mythology and deserves ongoing attention as such . . . It's a colorful story, too . . . Black Elk displays a Gump-like tendency to rub shoulders with the famous, most notably when he joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and finds himself in England performing for Queen Victoria." ―Jeff Guinn, The Dallas Morning News"[A] stirring, wide-ranging biography of the Sioux elder whose testimonials underlay ‘one of the twentieth century’s most important documents on Native American culture’ . . . Jackson surveys a broad swath of world history to place the Lakota spiritual leader in that terribly eventful context, and he does excellent work in doing so . . . [Black Elk is] of much literary and historical merit and a fine addition to the shelves of anyone interested in this part of America’s unhappy past." ―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Jackson's enlightening account of this influential Sioux leader, whose life encompassed many landmark events of the tumultuous years of U.S. western expansion, leaves the reader in awe of Black Elk's struggle to help his people preserve their culture as their traditions, religion, and education were under constant and brutal attack." ―Deborah Donovan, Booklist (starred review)"Jackson panoramically renders a narrative as majestic as the American West in this fine account of the life of Black Elk, an Oglala Lakota holy man. With compassion and clarity, Jackson portrays Black Elk as a man haunted by his inability to make sense of the 'Great Vision' that came to him as a child . . . He brilliantly frames it with an incisive discussion of the creation of John Neihardt’s 1932 as-told-to-book, Black Elk Speaks. Jackson digs into Native American culture and what it meant for Black Elk to be a holy man, especially in light of his 1904 conversion to Catholicism. He has produced a major contribution to Native American history." ―Publishers Weekly "Now readers can rediscover the real Black Elk and the wise, haunted book that bears his name. Jackson’s biography . . . brings long-lost events into sharp focus, both before and after the birth of what Jackson calls ‘one of the twentieth century’s most important documents on Native American culture’ . . . A timely addition to a rich and troubled history." ―Gregory McNamee, Kirkus Reviews "Interviews and Profiles""Sweeping in scope . . . Joe Jackson does a magnificent job of relating, explaining and commenting on [Black Elk’s] life in what is by far the most comprehensive biography of its subject to date. Jackson portrays Native Americans with a clear-eyed sympathy that avoids sentimentality, bringing historical figures such as Crazy Horse, Red Cloud and Sitting Bull to life and providing fascinating insights into Indian life, culture and, most notably, religion." ―Timothy J. Lockhart, The Virginian-Pilot"A masterpiece of American biographical reconstruction . . . Black Elk is an unapologetically sympathetic biography, for all its wide-ranging source-work. But even sinners need some sympathy, especially when it’s as smart as the sympathy offered here." ―Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly"The holy man reconstructed in this nuanced, revisionist story was . . . one of American history's great voices for social justice . . . Jackson's prodigiously researched narrative excels at parsing . . . controversies." ―Ann Neumann, The Baffler"Thorough and engrossing . . . Jackson’s storytelling is nuanced and exciting, and readers will gain a deeper understanding of Black Elk’s life and the mark he left on history." ―Elizabeth Rowe, Bookish"Jackson’s fascinating biography tells the true story of this American holy man." ―Tom Beer, Newsday "Joe Jackson has penned an extraordinary history of Lakota warfare with the United States wrapped around a thorough biography of the legendary Black Elk. Outstanding." ―Robert M. Utley, author of The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull"In Black Elk, Joe Jackson paints a vivid portrait of a figure that has often been shrouded in shadows. This extraordinary book will transform the way readers think about the history of the United States and its indigenous peoples." ―Ari Kelman, author of A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek, winner of the Bancroft Prize
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About the Author
Joe Jackson is the author of one novel and six works of nonfiction, including, most recently, Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic (FSG, 2012). His book The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire was one of Time’s Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2008. He is the Mina Hohenberg Darden Endowed Professor of Creative Writing in the M.F.A. creative writing program at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
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Product details
Hardcover: 624 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition (October 25, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0374253307
ISBN-13: 978-0374253301
Product Dimensions:
6.3 x 1.9 x 9.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.6 out of 5 stars
36 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#113,717 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Truth is told from front to back one can only hope God will forgive us for what we did to the people. Wonderful read.
Along with being good for those interested in Black Elk individually, it is also a great introduction for those, like myself, who previously knew nothing about the history of US - Plains Indians interactions throughout the latter half of the 19th century.
Joe Jackson has written an outstanding study of a subject worthy of such treatment. American history is full of people like people--influential, important, significant, and interesting; however, they are neglected or under-valued by scholars fixated on generals, presidents, and "titans" of business.
I have read most books about Black Elk and the Lakota People. This is a marvelous book.. I highly recommend it and have bought it and will buy more copies for friends. Pidamaya Wopila Tanka
This will be a difficult book to review as it is a multi-faceted work. At first glance it is a biography of a Sioux medicine man or holy man named Black Elk. It is also a history of the Sioux people during the last half of the 19th century and after the end of formal warfare with the whites and the tribe's confinement on reservations. It is also an introduction into Sioux culture and especially into their spirituality and mysticism. All of this comes to us in the words of Black Elk as he lived through and witnessed many of the major historical events involving the Sioux and was a highly regarded tribal holy man. What makes this book unusual is that most of this information was first published in a book written by John Neihardt in 1930 following a series of interviews Neihardt had with Black Elk. So in addition to all these other facets this book is about the writing of Neihardt's book.To begin with, while I rate this book at 3 stars which means to me that it was a good book and worth reading, I can't say that I enjoyed the read. In great part I found the book rather tedious and that was because of its focus on tribal religion and spirituality. Now I understand that this aspect was what made Neihardt's book, "Black Elk Speaks" so ground breaking when it was finally brought back into public attention in the '60's. However, if this book, and maybe Neihardt's as well, had used what Black Elk had told them to outline the foundations of tribal spiritualism and its rituals and tenets I could have found that interesting. For instance it is stated that the Sioux god is environmental and exists in the present while the white man's god exists in the future and promises great things in another life. The Indian god exists in the present world and is found in the wind, the earth, the plants, and all the animals and everything that happens is the result of his actions and intention. There are no coincidences in the Indian's existence in this world everything is the result of their god's action and needs to be observed and interpreted in order to divine the meaning. This I found interesting. However, what we are treated to is the spiritual life of one specific Sioux indian, Black Elk and we learn about the spiritual aspect of Sioux culture through his life and experiences. By doing this we learn more about this man than we do about his culture and I was bothered by this. My concern was that in the process of learning about the man we can't overlook normal human traits. Black Elk was born into a family of line of medicine men and was presumed by his family to carry on the family tradition so he was taught by his elders the things he would need to know as a medicine man. Black Elk, like most young men, was ambitious and wished to be admired and esteemed by his tribe. The normal way for a boy to acquire such esteem was by becoming an accomplished warrior. Unfortunately, Black Elk was not very big or athletic and therefore less than talented in those skills needed to be a good warrior. If he was to become an honored member of the tribe he needed another route and spirituality and his family tradition seemed the logical choice. So the details about his visions and dreams became, for me, suspect and the story of his life seems to fall in and out of this spirituality and even seems to become opportunistic. For this reason I would have preferred a general discussion of the religious aspects of the Sioux culture and not so much about how this culture was used in the life of a specific person.Now what I did like about this book was that part of the Sioux history that I have not read before, their life once confined to reservations. While the book did deal with the tribe's history before the end of hostilities and included the incidents of Sand Creek, Fetterman's Ambush, Little Big Horn, and Wounded Knee, this history has been treated with greater depth and detail in other works. This earlier history, however, did set the stage for the tragedy of reservation life and the degradation of the Sioux culture. This part of Indian history can easily provoke discussion and debate and this part of the book is what really saved it for me. I can understand the harsh treatment of Indians in the 19th century when memories of the hostilities were still fresh and the participants still alive but the treatment persisted into the 20th century with no real improvement. The very idea of the need for change doesn't even seem to exist until after Neihardt's book is published and read by a few people in positions to affect change. Another sad part of our history with Native Americans.The last hundred pages of the book continue the history of reservation life but also illustrates the process of creating "Black Elk Speaks". This part of the book is about the writing of Neihardt's book and what was involved and how that book was received and when and by whom. It also discusses the controversies that the book caused for Black Elk, his family, the author, and the religious personalities on the reservation. It was in this part of the book that the endearing message of Black Elk's visions are made more understandable and how they could and would affect his people. It is possible that as a young man Black Elk may have been the impressionable victim of spiritual suggestion or maybe he was just imaginative. It is also possible that what he reported to Neihardt was all true though Neihardt's mystical sympathies hardly made him an objective reporter. Nevertheless, the visions of Black Elk were published and they eventually started something of an Indian religious renaissance following WWII. So while I can't say this book was one of my favorites it was worth reading and maybe others will enjoy it more than I did. (le
This is an outstanding book! Black Elk participated in many events that are part of the mythos of the American West and the "idea" of America. He had a long life with some great moments, tragedy, hardship, and poverty through which he passed informed by his own visions, strong spirit and concern for the Lakota people in the modern world. I was impressed by Joe Jackson's research and his ability to tell the story, reveal little known and important elements, while not getting lost in extraneous sidelines.
Native American spiritually and eye witness to history.
An incredibly nuanced, detailed, well-documented, balanced and beautifully written biography of an extraordinary human being.
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