![]() ![]() Nevertheless all the descriptive lives of the Indians and how much they suffered, and how terrible was the extermination, the actions of Indians is not explanatory of the brutality in their hearts, not only to the whites but other Indian tribes. The book shows how spirituality and unity among the people of the specific Indian tribe, Oglala, gave them strength for trying to overcome the people’s superiority that spoiled many of the natives’ lives. The most important aspect of the book shows how young Indians aggressively try to overcome all of the harsh reality and attain the one point that would substantially change their lives. Black Elk realized that it was all a beautiful dream and it was over. When Black Elk was older and wiser, he started to realize how wrong he was in following his visions that were not as significant as the one he had when he was young.īut the perception of the vision he had was only a dream and when he was looking back at it, he remembered how the last battle was, where he saw dead bodies of women and children scattered all over the ground and the soldiers pointing their guns. The book showed that the Indians’ destiny was to roam through the world in finding a better life, which they could not find anywhere, because they were persecuted and being destroyed. Indians were proudly keeping on fighting the Wasichu, many times left with two horses and wounded. Going through sorrow and despair, Indians had to stand up for themselves. ![]() All his life he was getting more strength after losing someone close to him, this was a sign of the flow of powers to him from the spiritual world. The Black Elk realized in having the power to cure people as few other spiritual leaders could.īlack Elk, being a little afraid, always influenced his friends into fighting believing and thinking always about his vision, which seemed reality to him. By telling the dreams to the village, they powered themselves and were going to fight in small groups relying on spirits to help them in, saying “today is a good day to live”. Throughout Black Elk’s life, their community was moved from one place to another, when they reached other destinations after awhile they had to fight whites and to live through loses and hard times.īlack Elk always had the visions of the people dancing and the Grandfathers that were symbolizing villages in many dreams that he had to save. One could only imagine what were the reasons that Indians were bloody-minded and brutal to the whites.Īfter seeing their own villages, where they were born and where the soul was, burn down to ashes, their hatred and dispiteous actions towards whites just grew stronger and stronger, and all they wanted was revenge and death of whites. Growing up Black Elk and his friends were already playing the games of killing the whites and they waited impatiently to kill and scalp the first Wasichu, and bring the scalp to the village showing how strong and brave they were. Indians believed that there would be a better life for them after they die, because many of them did not see a way out, but people were still fighting for their lives. The rituals and traditions of the Indians evince their beliefs in spirits and afterlife. The deep spiritual significance of the dream came to him when he was older and wiser. After the dream, he was courageous and willing to go fight the barbarians. Where he was given a gift from Great Spirits to save the Indian civilization by driving a way the Wasichus from their native land. While still young, at the age of nine, Black Elk had a vision where he was the leader of all his people. As a little boy, Black Elk witnessed his village being invaded by Wasichus, a term that was used by Indians to designate the white man, but having no reference to the color of his skin.īlack Elk describes the life of Indians, which is very spiritual and could be very unattainable to understand to the naked eye of a regular person who did not know all the Indians’ beliefs. Neihardt, an Indian boy then a warrior, and Holy Man describes the life his people had in the lands that belonged to them that were seized by invaders. In the book Black Elk Speaks, being the life story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux as told through John G. The Native Americans did not consider “white way of living righteous” for them, they were spiritual and had a different outlook on life, and did not want interference from outside world.
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