 ... see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's...  James Welch: A Critical Companiondoor Mary Jane Lupton - 2004 - 164 pagina’sGeen voorbeeld beschikbaar - Over dit boek
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1976 - 634 pagina’s
...people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream. And I, to whom so great a vision was given la my youth, — you see me now a pitiful old man who...no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead. 230 326 History of South Dakota [Herbert S. Schell, History of South Dakota (Third Edition, Revised).... | |
 | Gerald Robert Vizenor - 1981 - 216 pagina’s
...his blonde, her face carved deep with emotion, laced her fingers on his arm. beautiful dream. . . . There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead." "Lighten up, man," snapped the black secretary. "This is no real world man, there never has been a... | |
 | Albert E. Stone - 1982 - 372 pagina’s
...bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream. And I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth...no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead. (276) Though this is a moving conclusion to the story Black Elk chooses to tell, it is not the actual... | |
 | John Gneisenau Neihardt - 1985 - 496 pagina’s
...bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream. And I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth,...There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead.82 The author's postscript relating the ceremony on Harney Peak does little to buoy hope. There... | |
 | Susan Willis - 1987 - 202 pagina’s
...bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream . . . the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is...no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead. Black Elk's words remember the massacre of Wounded Knee, which for Indian people was the brutal cancellation... | |
 | Black Elk - 1979 - 318 pagina’s
...bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream. And I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth,—you see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nation's hoop is broken and... | |
 | Arnold Krupat - 1989 - 208 pagina’s
...Black Elk admits sadly, proved to be impossible. Neihardt has Black Elk conclude his story as follows: And I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth,—...no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead. 26 Yet, as we now know, this ending as well as the book's lovely beginning were not Black Elk's but... | |
 | G. Thomas Couser - 1989 - 298 pagina’s
...ended with the battle. The final paragraphs say so explicitly: I did not know how much died there.. .. And I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth—you see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nation's hoop is broken and... | |
 | Paul A. Olson - 1990 - 340 pagina’s
...bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream. . . . And I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth—you see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nation's hoop is broken and... | |
 | Kenneth Keulman - 1993 - 248 pagina’s
...stuff of mysticism, a mysticism that sees the end of everything holy and natural to the Plains Indian: And I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth...There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead.78 It is the end because the war is over and cannot be fought again. It is the end because the... | |
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