Who is John G. Neihardt

John Gneisenau Neihardt (January 8, 1881 – November 3, 1973) was an American writer and poet, amateur historian and ethnographer. Born at the end of the American settlement of the Plains, he became interested in the lives of those who had been a part of the European-American migration, as well as the Indigenous peoples whom they had displaced.

His best-known work is Black Elk Speaks (1932), which Neihardt presents as an extended narration of the visions of the Lakota medicine man Black Elk. It was translated into German as Ich rufe mein Volk (I Call My People) (1953). In the United States, the book was reprinted in 1961, at the beginning of an increase in non-Native interest in Native American cultures. Its widespread popularity has supported four other editions. In 2008 the S...
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John G. Neihardt Poems

• The Poet's Town
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  'Mid glad green miles of tillage
  And fields where cattle graze,...
• When I Have Gone Weird Ways
  When I have finished with this episode,
  Left the hard, uphill road,
  And gone weird ways to seek another load,
  Oh, friends, regret me not, nor weep for me,...
• Ballad Of A Child
  Yearly thrilled the plum tree
  With the mother-mood;
  Every June the rose stock
  Bore her wonder-child:...

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• Nshsf1942: spring is finally in the air! we're excited for warmer temperatures which make traveling to all the fantastic museums in nebraska a bit easier! photo of the john g neihardt center in bancroft, ne
• Mindparasitess: for those of you who want some deep reading, check out: stages of evil: occultism in western theater and drama, night's black agents by anthony harris, black elk speaks by john g. neihardt. interested in more? maybe i will make another thread! this is the tip of the weird iceberg
• Watervole: "crazy horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of things. that is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world… – black elk black elk speaks, by john g neihardt.
• B2l_history: before his most fabulous adventure (celebrated by john g. neihardt in the song of hugh glass and by frederick manfred in lord grizzly), hugh glass was captured by the buccaneer jean lafitte and turned pirate himself until his first chance t...
• Hoeger16nrtz: the sixth grandfather: black elk's teachings given to john g neihardt srpulhm

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