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45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Indigenous way of being,
By Matthew Middendorf (Lyons, CO, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt (Hardcover)
This book is the most powerful book I have ever read. Black Elk exudes a spiritual connection that is unparalleled. He also was a man of service. He speaks with a poetic sense of the world that has been killed by science, rationalism and money lust. If we could recover the spiritual sense, this indigenous way of being, that this man had the world would be rich. This book is better than the book "Black Elk Speaks" by Neihardt, because Demallie publishes the interviews verbatim (Neihardt's influence is limited), he provides many footnotes and writes a 100 page introduction and biography on Black Elk using material not contained in the interviews. Demallie also discusses issues that arise from what Black Elk says.
47 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
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"Black Elk speaks"... for the first time !,
This review is from: The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt (Paperback)
We knew "BLACK ELK speaks" for a long time, through John NEIHARDT's translation. Now, we get - at least - the full text and it's a real hapiness ! I compared the two texts, some days ago, for my Belgian students and discovered how Neihardt had betrayed the Old Man by cutting, interpreting and rewriting the original interview. This book is the most important publication in Native American spirituality for years; it presents, in the same time, a vivid Lakota experience of Little Big Horn battle and Wounded Knee massacre, without any reorganization. Read it.
24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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Astonishingly beautiful,
By CNJ (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt (Paperback)
These are the original records of a series of interviews about spiritual awakening that resulted in the classic book "Black Elk Speaks." When Black Elk describes his vision, it is the most beautiful, the most profound assessment of human experience that I have ever encountered. Black Elk speaks in the language and symbols of his culture, so a reader who has knowledge of his way of life will better understand what he was trying to convey.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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The sixth grandfather,
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This review is from: The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt (Paperback)
I felt this book was a constant page turner. If your interested in native american literature this is a wonderful book to have in your collection. Find a quiet place burn some sage and cedar and begin your journey with the sixth grandfather.
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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spiritual review,
By rose major (canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt (Paperback)
In reading this book on Black Elk Speaks I was overwhelmed. It seemed like the book was meant to land into my hands. When I began to read this novel, I understood. My feelings about vision quests, and soaring with the creators helpers has been an enlightenment to me for being here. I see things that I read in Black Elk Speaks and I understand. I understand what it is like to want to save the people and to have this heaviness come over you when they don't understand you. I have heard your message and I understand.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent!,
By Robert Yanasak (Mendocino, California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt (Paperback)
Black Elk Speaks
I ordered the book for my friend Kayla. When I found out that she was writing a paper on American Indians, I insisted she read what I feel is one of the most amazing insights into a facet of the mind they, the American Indians know well; that of the Medicine Man, their Shaman. Black Elk Speaks opened my mind to a world I knew of only in reading other books on sages that have entered realities unknown to most of us, sages from other parts of the world. Our culture generally discourages any practice that helps an individual get beyond the mental confines of the world we know. In this book, we read about a people, in this case one man, that makes it his and their life-style or "Way" where the exception in the norm. Robert Yanasak
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Quellenwerk zu Black Elk Speaks - Schwarzer Hirsch: Ich rufe mein Volk,
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This review is from: The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt (Paperback)
Sehr interessantes Buch für alle, die sich mit Black Elk - oder wie er in Deutschland bekannt ist: Schwarzer Hirsch (falsche Übersetzung!) - befassen wollen. Für mich gehört dieses Buch zum Grundlagenwerk über Black Elk.Das Buch besteht vor allem aus 3 Teilen: 1. Eine kurze Biographie über Black Elk. Das ist in sofern wichtig und interessant, da das Buch Black Elk Speaks" zwar den Anschein hat, als erzähle es den ganzen Lebensweg von Black Elk, aber fast unbemerkt viele Jahre seines Lebens ausklammert, die Zeiten nämlich, in denen Black Elk mit Buffalo Bill auf Wild West Show ging und vor allen aktiver Katholik war. Außerdem wird die Begegnung von Black Elk mit John Neihardt geschildert, der dann für Black Elk das Buch Black Elk Speaks" schrieb. Ebenso wird die Zeit nach dem Buch wiedergegeben, wo er in Historienspielen einen indianischen Schamanen spielt, oder auch die Begegnung mit Epes Brown, der dann für ihn das Buch Schwarzer Hirsch: Die Heilige Pfeife" schrieb. 2. Die Begegnung mit John Neihardt und die Interviews, die dann später Grundlage für das Buch Black Elk Speaks wurden, werden geschildert und die Umstände und Problemsituation beschrieben. 3. Der eigentliche Hauptteil des Buches, in dem die Scripte von Enid Neihardt, John Neihardts Tochter, die die Interviews stenographierte, als Quellenwerk veröffentlicht werden. Dazu gibt es noch eine Einleitung, die vor allem die Unterschiede der Großen Vision von Buch und Script herausarbeitet. Das Interessante des Buches macht wohl die Spannung aus, wie John Neihardt das, was Black Elk ihm erzählt, im Buch umsetzt. Wenn man dazu mit DeMaille überlegt, wie auch das weitere Leben Black Elks seinen Blick auf seine Vision und das freie Leben der Sioux beeinflusst, ist das Buch schon fast spannend. Auch dieses Buch gehört für mich zu den Klassikern über Black Elk, für alle Interessierten ein muss. Vor allem wenn man bedenkt, dass ja auch die deutsche Übersetzung veraltet und mit Sicherheit nicht frei von eigener Färbung ist, das sagt ja allein schon der Titel, der ja nicht nur den Namen falsch übersetzt, sondern auch den Gesamtsinn. Black Elk wollte ja seine Vision ALLEN Menschen erzählen, nicht nur seinem eigenen Volk!! Das hat Neihardt mit seiner Überschrift besser erkannt! |
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The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt by John Gneisenau Neihardt (Paperback - October 1, 1985)
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