"Black Elk Speaks" Book Discussion

Humanities scholar Jace DeCory will lead a discussion of "Black Elk Speaks" by John Neihardt. The book is the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk and the Lakota during the last years of the 19th century. Amy Kucera, the former executive director of the John G. Neihardt State Historic Site in Bancroft, Neb., will tell about the poet and that historic site. Everyone is welcome to attend the free program, sponsored by the South Dakota Historical Society Foundation and the As The Pages Turn Book Club in Pierre and made possible by a grant from the South Dakota Humanities Council. Copies of "Black Elk Speaks": are available for loan or purchase at the Cultural Heritage Center.