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Combination of history, religion and the interpretation of a white man. With lots of additional information and pictures.

The difficulties of translating, understanding others accurately and well, has always been something that interests me, something raised by this book--both by the contrasts between the history that I’ve heard before and Black Elk's story, and that between the text and the corrections made in the footnotes (e.g., “This was Neirhardt's description. Black Elk never used this word.”).
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