Black Elk with Joseph Epes Brown

THE SACRED PIPE: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 144p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The book is clean and tight. The jacket is sunfaded and lightly edgeworn, but still essentially intact. Item #322886

Black Elk (1863-1950) was a Lakota medicine man who fought alongside Crazy Horse at the Battle of Little Bighorn. He later converted to Catholicism while retaining some of his Lakota spiritual practices. He was declared a Servant of God in 2016. This book, a collaboration with the influential ethnologist Joseph Epes Brown, specifically deals with Lakota Sioux religious rites.

Price: $200.00