article‚ Black Elk Speaks with Forked Tongue‚ Couser is giving his opinion on how he thinks that Neihardt was in actuality suppressing the Lakota way of life and Black Elk’s story. His opinion is backed by some good points from the text and as well as other scholars who have the same opinion as himself. Couser does believe that Black Elk Speaks is a well written book and he even respects and commends Neihardt in his attempt to honor Black Elk‚ “before detailing the short comings of Black Elk Speaks
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sentences that helped me understand that it was an autobiography. John Neihardt‚ the author of‚ Black Elk Speaks‚ could be interpreted as something else rather than an autobiography‚ because Black Elk didn’t write it. Black Elk told the story to his son Ben Black Elk. Who then translated It in English to John Neihardt‚ and his daughter to record. After doing research on line about the book Black Elk Speaks‚ I noticed that there was a lot of controversy about the author of the book. Which entailed
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Personal Essay Black Elk Speaks Before reading Black Elk Speaks I thought that Native Americans were all the same they fought wars and rode around on horse. They either won or lost the wars they fought in and they all lived in teepees. I really didn’t have much knowledge on them. I’ve always know that they had a very deep spiritual connection to nature and their world around them but I didn’t know the reasons why. Before reading I didn’t think about things as much like the world and animals; I
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How true are the stories that are told in an autobiography? Nancy Mairs would say that each person has their own way of looking at an event. The autobiographies of Black Elk and Oishi Junkyo bring up many questions of truth and subjectivity. These autobiographies show that personal accounts are subjective and language‚ memory‚ the motives of the writer/translator‚ make autobiography that much more subjective. Nancy Mairs writes in her article “Trying Truth” about the struggles of writing an autobiography
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In the academic study of Native American spiritualties‚ the scholar often provides the lens through which one examines various worldviews. This lens can influence a reader’s interpretation of spiritual practices‚ creating a biased body of knowledge. Often‚ mass generalizations are then made about diverse groups of indigenous people. Whether the nature of these generalizations is positive or negative‚ they distort the image of the group being studied based upon the author’s approach or motives.
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The elk loved being hunted by predators his family had runaway where they were because‚ the elk was suicidal so he stayed lonely in the forest. Some elks came across the forest where he was and they saw that he liked being in danger so they decided to just leave him their. The elk decided to move on and went to another forest where he heard that it was the most dangerous forest in the world. The elk was in the forest and he was just walking by and saw lots of bones of elks but he wasn’t afraid‚ remember
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Nate Murray Wounded Knee Massacre – Black Elk Speaks‚ The Butchering At Wounded Knee History and background How it started: In years previous to the massacre the US government had been seizing large portions of the Native American tribe‚ the Sioux’s lands. Bison herds had reached near extinction and the treaty promises to the Native Americans protecting reservation lands were not being met. It was during this time that news spread among the reservations of a Native American prophet by the name
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Black Elk Speaks The Oglala people were very spiritual and believed in another world and higher being. The Oglala Sioux Nation’s rituals‚ traditions‚ and ways of life are reflected through the story of Black Elk‚ an Oglala Sioux medicine man‚ who shared his life stories with the poet John Neihardt in an attempt to preserve the history of the Sioux traditions. Neihardt’s book‚ Black Elk Speaks‚ also depicts the struggles of the Lakota Indians (Oglala Sioux Nation) as they defend their land against
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Population of Elk (Cerphus elaphus) have been fluctuating in certain areas across North America for various reasons. One of the reasons includes their reintroduction to East Tennessee (Murrow 2007). Fluctuating populations create a need for research on elk for more effective and efficient use of resources by wildlife managers‚ and to monitor how well they are transitioning. Capture research has been conducted on two of the four current subspecies of elk. The two subspecies are Roosevelt Elk (Cervus elaphus
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Being a black woman‚ growing up on the southside of Chicago‚ IL in a single parent home‚ with little money but a strong faith in God and His word‚ are just a few factors that have had the greatest influence on the development of my worldview. Yes‚ factors like my race‚ gender‚ socio-economic status‚ geographical location‚ and beliefs have all played a majored role into how I see the world‚ live my life‚ behave as a wife‚ raise my children and treat others. If I eliminated any one of those factors
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