Black Elk's Vision: A Lakota Story

A stunning picture book biography of Lakota-Oglala medicine man Black Elk, from award-winning author and illustrator S....
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Author: S. D. Nelson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Black Elk's Vision: A Lakota Story by Nelson, S. D.

Black Elk's Vision: A Lakota Story

$26.40

Black Elk's Vision: A Lakota Story

$26.40
Author: S. D. Nelson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A stunning picture book biography of Lakota-Oglala medicine man Black Elk, from award-winning author and illustrator S. D. Nelson

Black Elk (1863-1950) was a Lakota-Oglala medicine man and a cousin of Crazy Horse. This biographical account follows him from childhood through adulthood, recounting the visions he had as a young boy and describing his involvement in the battles of Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee, as well as his journeys to New York City and Europe with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Award-winning author and member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe S. D. Nelson tells the story of Black Elk through the voice of the medicine man, bringing to life what it was like to be Native American from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. The Native people found their land overrun by the wasichus (White Man), the buffalo slaughtered for sport, and their people gathered onto reservations.

Interspersing archival images with his own artwork, inspired by the ledger-art drawings of the nineteenth-century Lakota, Nelson conveys how Black Elk clung to his childhood vision, which planted the seeds to help his people--and all people--understand their place in the Circle of Life. Backmatter includes a Lakota description of the Circle of Life, a brief history of the Lakota and a timeline.


Author: S. D. Nelson
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers
Published: 03/10/2015
Pages: 56
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.80h x 9.80w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781419715280
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 136817 / Black Elk's Vision: A Lakota Story

About the Author
S. D. Nelson is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe of the Dakotas. He is the author of three previous children's books for Abrams. School Library Journal called Gift Horse "fluid in both narrative and illustrations," and Kirkus said Star People was "an exemplary offering." He lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.

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