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Black Elk's vision : a Lakota story  Cover Image Book Book

Black Elk's vision : a Lakota story / S.D. Nelson.

Nelson, S. D. (Author).

Summary:

A simple biography of Lakota-Oglala medicine man Black Elk, from his childhood vision which shaped his life through his battles with the whites and his travels with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780810983991 (reinforced bdg.)
  • ISBN: 0810983990 (reinforced bdg.)
  • Physical Description: 47 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 27 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, c2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Maps on end papers.
"The paintings ... were created with acrylic pain on 140 lb. cold-press 100-percent-cotton acid-free paper. The drawings were made with black colored pencil on heavyweight watercolor paper."--Colophon.
"All of the paintings and line drawings ... are by S.D. Nelson, except Red Horse's drawing on page 26. The border seen on most pages is a design based on traditional Lakota geometric patterns. The photographs and archival images are reproduced by courtesy ..." of various archives and historical societies.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 46) and index.
Target Audience Note:
008-012 Ingram.
Subject: Black Elk, 1863-1950 > Juvenile literature.
Black Elk, 1863-1950.
Teton Indians > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Oglala Indians > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Oglala Indians > Biography.

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Homer Public Library J 978.004 NEL (Text) 000091948 Children's Library -- Nonfiction Available -


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