A Sender of Words: Essays in Memory of John G. Neihardt,New

A Sender of Words: Essays in Memory of John G. Neihardt,New

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Product DescriptionAuthor of more than thirty books of poetry, Western history, stories, fiction, biography, criticism, and Native studies, John G. Neihardt (18811973) was born in Illinois, taught for many years at the University of Missouri, and was named by act of legislature Poet Laureate of Nebraska and the Prairies. Neihardt was devoted to his ideals of art, spirit, humanity, and understanding. This volume brings together fourteen lifelong admirers, who each contribute a portrait or an appreciation of this American original.Best known for his 1932 classic Black Elk Speaks, done in collaboration with the Lakota holy man Nicholas Black Elk, Neihardt is also justly regarded as an epic poet, travel writer, newspaperman, teacher, mystic, and spokesman for the beauty of the Great Plains and the drama of ordinary and exceptional lives.ReviewHis musical words are being read and spoken in some part of this wide earth every hour of every day.Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded KneeIt is through the intercession of John Neihardt that we have access to a principal worldview of one of the major tribes of American Indians.N. Scott MomadayAbout the AuthorVine Deloria Jr. is the author of Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto and Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact.

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