The smell of burning sage permeates the Aurora Fox theater before each performance of “Black Elk Speaks” as it did before every rehearsal, the producer has noted, when the cast — 80 percent ...

The University of Nebraska Press no longer will publish “Black Elk Speaks” by John G. Neihardt, Nebraska poet laureate in perpetuity. Starting in August, the State University of New York Press ...

BLACK ELK SPEAKS—John G. Neihardt —Morrow ($3.75). Though Moses and the Hebrew prophets cornered the Western market long ago, other races, other men have produced scripture too. Such a one is ...

Written by John G. Neihardt, “Black Elk Speaks” remains the NU Press’ bestselling book, having sold nearly 900,000 copies from 1961 to 2008. The 1932 book is about the life of Lakota holy ...

The Oglala Lakota holy man of “Black Elk Speaks’’ and John G. Neihardt have been memorialized in bronze. Heroic-sized sculptures of Nicholas Black Elk and Neihardt will be unveiled during ...

Humanities scholar Jace DeCory will discuss the story of Nicholas Black Elk as told in John Neihardt’s book “Black Elk Speaks,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre.