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Black Elk's Religion - The Sun Dance and Lakota Catholicism (Hardcover, New ed.)
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Black Elk's Religion - The Sun Dance and Lakota Catholicism (Hardcover, New ed.)
Series: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors
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Black Elk was one of the greatest religious thinkers produced by
native North America, and the Sun Dance the central religious
ritual of his Lakota tradition. Beginning with a review of the
recent critical work on Black Elk by Paul B. Steinmetz, Julian Rice
and Michael K. Steltenkamp, Holler reconstructs the history and
development of the Lakota Sun Dance, essential background for
understanding Black Elk's thought. His analysis is a comprehsnive
study of the dance, which was banned by the government in 1883.
Holler shows how Black Elk adapted the dance to the conditions and
circumstances of reservation life, reinterpreting it in terms
commensurate with Christianity. His firsthand account of the dance
associated with Frank Fools Crow at Three Mile Camp near Kyle,
South Dakota, shows how the contemporary Sun Dance reflects Black
Elk's vision. Holler's book offers a philosophical engagement with
native North American religion, carried out in close dialogue with
anthropology. Readers who were captivated by John G. Neihardt's
gripping portrait of Black Elk in ""Black Elk Speaks"" may be
surprised to learn that he was a vital and creative leader until
his death in 1950, not the broken, despairing old man made famous
by Neihardt. Holler establishes that Black Elk was both a sincere
traditionalist and a sincere Christian, seeing the two religious
traditions as expressions of the sacred. Students of religion
should be stimulated by Holler's interpretation of Black Elk as a
creative thinker, rather than a passive informant on his people's
past. Those interested in Native Americans, especially the Lakota,
should appreciate his authoritative reconstruction of the Sun
Dance, which proposes new understandings of this central Lakota
religious ritual. The book also includes a glossary of terms.
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