Black Elk Speaks : Paperback : University of Nebraska Press : 9780803283916 : 0803283911 : 01 Mar 2014 : Presents the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century. It offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk\'s searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth, conveyed by John G. Neihardt, have made this book a classic that crosses multiple genres.