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This is the preface to The Sacred Pipe, Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux.

Black Elk first became known to a wide range of readers in 1932 through John G. Neihardt’s Black Elk Speaks: The Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux. Neihardt’s poetic and sympathetic treatment of … Read more...