Program

Research Programs: Scholarly Publications

Period of Performance

4/1/1983 - 9/30/1984

Funding Totals

$5,150.00 (approved)
$5,150.00 (awarded)


The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt, edited by Raymond J. DeMallie

FAIN: RP-20422-83

University of Nebraska, Lincoln (Lincoln, NE 68503-2427)
Kay Graber (Project Director: November 1982 to October 1990)

To support publication of the notes and transcripts made by John G. Neihardt during his interviews with Black Elk, an Oglala Lakota American Indian holy man, in the early thirties. Anthropologist Raymond J. DeMallie has written theintroduction, annotated the interviews, and provided a biography of Black Elk.