The Spiritual Legacy of the American Indian
Subtitle: Commemorative Edition with Letters while Living with Black Elk (The Perennial Philosophy Series)
Contributors: Michael Oren Fitzgerald (Editor); Ake Hultkrantz (Introduction)
Edition: Cmv edition
Publisher: World Wisdom
Published: April 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781933316369
Subjects: History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Indigenous peoples; Native American Religions; Native American Sociology; Social Science; Sociology; North America; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes; General; Religion / General; Ethnic & Tribal; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Mysticism; Great Plains; Indian cosmology; Indian mythology; Indians of North America; Religion
Description: "This new and updated edition of Joseph Epes Brown's The Spiritual Legacy of the American Indian contains previously unpublished letters that were written while Brown was living with Black Elk, providing new details and insights about Black Elk's relationship to the Catholic Church and to traditional Lakota spirituality. This commemorative edition includes: 9 previously unpublished photographs; a new introduction by Ake Hultkrantz; a new editors' preface by Marina Brown Weatherly, Elenita Brown, and Michael Oren Fitzgerald; an appendix of unpublished letters while living with Black Elk; a 4-page biography of Joseph Epes Brown; a complete bibliography of Brown's published works; and an index. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.