Black Elk Speaks (37 page)

White, Bruce M. “Encounters with Spirits: Ojibwa and Dakota Theories about the French and Their Merchandise,”
Ethnohistory
41(3):369–405.

Wissler, Clark. “Societies and Ceremonial Associations in the Oglala Division of the Teton-Dakota.”
American Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Papers
11(1) (1912):1–99.

Yost, Nellie Snyder.
Buffalo Bill: His Family, Friends, Fame, Failures and Fortunes
. Chicago: Swallow, 1979.

Afraid-of-Hawk,
196

Afraid-of-His-Horses.
See
Young Man Afraid of His Horses

African Americans,
82
, 82
n
18,
216
, 216
n
7

aguiapi (bread),
47
,
48

akíchita
, 12
n
20,
16
, 16
n
32, 18
n
3, 25
n
13, 31
n
23,
42
, 42
n
7, 61
n
1, 143
n
8, 204
n
14, illus. 4

All-Gone-Tree Creek,
123
,
124

Allison, Senator William H., 64
n
15

Allison Commission, 70
n
28

American Horse,
104
,
105
, 105
n
11,
204
,
304

Anderson, Dana 300

Arapahos (Indian nation),
9
,
64
,
75
, 174
n
14,
186
, 186
n
3

Archambault, Marie Therese,
301

Arikaras (Indian nation),
91
, 91
n
2

Attacking of the Wagons.
See
Wagon Box Fight

Bad Faces,
48
–49

Badlands,
114
, 153
n
11,
204
, 204
n
13, 204
n
15,
205
,
216
–217, 217
n
11,
218
,
219

Battle Creek,
208

Battle of the Hundred Slain.
See
Fetter-man Fight

Bear Ceremony,
84
–85, 84
n
3

Bear Creek,
114

Bear Sings,
129
,
130

Bear Society, 84
n
3

Beaver Creek,
65

Belle Fourche River, 47
n
5

Benteen, Capt. Frederick W, 83
n
1, illus. 13

Big Foot,
7
,
201
,
204
,
205
, 205
n
17,
207
,
211
, illus.
27
–28

Bighorn Mountains,
84
,
93
,
100
,
103
,
104
,
106

Big Man.
See
Little Big Man

Big Road,
10
,
75
, 115
n
1,
196

Birmingham, England 179
n
1

bison,
8
, 8
n
6, 9
n
10,
17
,
23
, 27
n
16,
29
,
30
,
41
’44,
65
,
80
,
105
,
115
,
117
,
119
,
120
–121,
132
,
164
,
165
,
166
,
171
, 17
n
1,
172
,
176
,
185
,
187
,
189
,
199
,
illus
. 1,
illus
. 10,
illus.
26
,
298
,
304

Bismarck ND, 62
n
6

Black Buffalo Woman, 67
n
24

Black Butte,
89

Black Elk, Benjamin,
xx
,
xxv
, xxv
n
6,
219
, 221
n
9,
291
,
293
,
299

Black Elk, Nicholas: at age five,
15

at age nine,
17
,
292

first vision by,
15
–16

Great Vision experienced,
xxiv
,
xxv
,
18
–36,
163
,
illus
.
4
–5,
292
,
309
,
311

identified as special by medicine man,
38

on bison hunt,
41
–44

at age ten,
48

first meets a white person,
48

at age twelve,
63

at age thirteen,
73

given first gun,
73

takes part in healing ceremony,
84
–85

in Little Bighorn Fight,
86
–89

takes first
scalp,
88
–89,
97

at age fourteen,
109

at death of Crazy Horse,
112

in Canada with Sitting Bull,
115

at age sixteen,
118

at age seventeen,
127

performs Horse Dance,
129
–139,
163
,
illus
.
15
–19

atage eighteen,
142

vision questand Dog Vision,
144
–148,
163
,
illus
.
20
–21

performs heyoka ceremony,
148
–153,
163

firsthealing by,
157
–161,
310

at age nineteen,
161

as a healer,
163
,
172
,
186
,
188

at age twenty,
166

performs Bison ceremony,
164
–166

performs Elk ceremony,
166
–169

at age twenty-three,
172

travels with Wild West Show to Europe,
172
–180,
182

performs for Queen Victoria,
176
–178

spirit journey from Europe to home,
180
–182,
illus
. 22

hears of Wovoka,
186
–189

father dies,
188

in a Ghost Dance,
193
–199,
290
,
295
,
illus
.
24
–26

at Wounded Knee Massacre,
207
–212,
illus
. 27-30,
290

at Mission Fight,
214
–216

at Harney Peak as an older man,
219
–221,
294

way to write name of,
illus
. 2a

organizes Indian show in Black Hills,
313

Black Elk Speaks, critical reaction to,
xxvii
–xxviii,
298
–300,
302
,
315

Black Feather,
216

Blackfeet,
123
–124, 123
n
1

Blackfoot Sioux, 7
n
1, 47
n
1,
75
,
83
, 83
n
2, 103
n
2

Black Fox,
Lizzie
, 194
n
3

Black Hills, 9
n
10,
49
, 49
n
9,
50
,
61
,
62
, 62
n
13,
63
, 63
n
10,
64
, 64
n
15,
65
, 65
n
18,
68
, 70
n
28, 73–74, 73
n
3,
103
,
105
, 105
n
11, 105
n
15, 153
n
11,
181
,
304
,
311
,
313

Black Hills Treaty (1876),
105
–106, 105
n
15, 111
n
2,
185

Black Moon,
75

Black Road (aLakota),
126
,
129
,
130
,
138

Black Road.
See
Road, Black

Black Robe (Catholic priest).
See
Craft, Father

Black Wasichu (a Lakota),
98
,
101

Black Wasichus.
See
African Americans

Blue Clouds.
See
Arapahos

Blue Man (of the Great Vision),
26
, 26
n
14, 35
n
30,
illus
.
7
,
310

Bozeman Trail,
8
, 8
n
7, 9
n
11, 15
n
29,
64
, 71
n
32,
73
, 73
n
3, 78
n
16

Brave Bear,
186
,
187
,
188

Brave Wolf,
117
–118

Brenan store (trading post at Wounded Knee),
205
, 205
n
18, 207
n
1

Brings Plenty,
96

Brooke, Gen. John R., 202
n
7

Brown, Elenita,
313
–314

Brown, Joseph Epes, 70
n
27,
296
,
313
–314

The Sacred Pipe,
296
,
313

Brules, 7
n
1, 15
n
29, 63
n
9,
75
, 103
n
2,
108
, 115
n
1,
141
,
142
,
201
,
202
, 202
n
6,
203
,
204
, 204
n
13, 204
n
14

buffalo.
See
bison

Buffalo Bill,
172
, 172
n
6, 173
n
8,
182
,
313

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, xix
n
7,
172
–180, 172
n
6, 173
n
8, 173
n
9, 174
n
14, 176
n
15, 177
n
18, 179
n
1,
182
, 182
n
5,
290
,
295
,
308
,
313
,
314

Buffalo Ceremony,
164
–166,
167

Buffalo Gap,
49

butterflies,
146
,
147
,
illus
. 20

Canada,
104
, 104
n
9,
109
,
115
–121, 115
n
1,
123
–141.
176

Carlisle school,
xxv
, xxv
n
6

Castro, Michael,
299

Catholicism,
xvii
n
1, xxii
n
2, 216
n
8,
290
,
296
,
298
,
300
–302,
310
,
314
,
315

Cavett, Dick,
xxviii

Central Pacific Railroad, 17
n
1

chacun sha sha (bark of red willow),
42
, 42
n
6,
137
,
138
,
144
,
157
,
159
,
illus
. 20

chahumpi ska (sugar),
47

Chapped Breast Dance,
45

Chase-in-the-Morning,
98

Cheyenne Creek,
189
,
204

Cheyenne River,
47
,
62
,
182
, 182
n
6,
185
,
205

Cheyenne River Agency, 103
n
2

Cheyenne River Reservation, 182
n
6,
201
, 205
n
17

Cheyennes (Indian nation), 7
n
5,
9
, 13
n
23, 14
n
25,
64
, 70
n
28, 71
n
32,
73
,
74
,
75
, 78
n
16,
80
,
83
, 83
n
1, 83
n
2,
91
, 91
n
12,
94
, 94
n
17,
95
, 98
n
23, 103
n
4,
104
,
106
, 106
n
19, 107
n
23,
108
, 174
n
14

Chicago IL,
173

Chips (medicine man),
61
, 61
n
1,
62

Clark, W. P., 109
n
30

Costello, Damian,
301

clown, ceremonial.
See
heyoka

coup, counting.
See
Lakota traditional culture, counting coup

Courtwright, W. B.,
xxi

coyote,
119
,
126

Crab,
74

Craft, Father,
204
, 204
n
12, 216
n
7

Crawford NE, 48
n
6

Crazy Horse,
xvii
,
xxii
,
7
,
9
,
47
,
49
, 49
n
8,
61
, 61
n
1,
63
,
64
,
65
,
66
, 66
n
22,
67
–69, 67
n
24,
70
,
71
, 71
n
32, 74
n
4,
75
,
78
,
83
,
87
,
104
, 105
n
13,
106
–107, 107
n
23,
108
, 108
n
27,
109
, 109
n
29, 109
n
30,
111
–114, 111
n
1, 112
n
4, 114
n
5,
115
, 115
n
1,
145
,
176
,
185
,
illus
. 13,
304
,
307
,
311
,
312

Creeping (medicine man),
12

Crook, Brig. Gen. George, 71
n
32,
78
, 78
n
16,
82
,
83
,
85
,
103
, 103
n
1,
104
, 105
n
11, 11
n
13,
185