
Purchase your books by festival authors directly from CW below:

Purchase your tickets from the SF Literary Festival website here. Collected Works will be carrying a wide selection of books by all participating authors available for online pre-order and at the on-site festival bookstore May 20-23. To order books by festival authors directly from CW, see below. NOTE: If you purchase a festival event ticket that is INCLUSIVE of the author's book, you will receive that book upon check-in for your event a t the festival. Maps, original illustrations by Standing Bear, and a set of appendixes rounds out the edition.Ĭelebrating the power of story, the inaugural Santa Fe Literary Festivalwill be an unforgettable weekend dedicated to a shared love and language of ideas. Collected Works Bookstore is thrilled to be the official bookstore of the Festival.īestselling, prizewinning authors and literary legends like Margaret Atwood, Joy Harjo, Colson Whitehead, Sandra Cisneros, John Grisham, amongst others, will headline the festival, discussing their work with readings and book signings that set the stage for further inspired conversations. Neihardt provide background on this landmark work along with pieces by Vine Deloria Jr., Raymond J. Deloria and annotations of Black Elk’s story by renowned Lakota scholar Raymond J. This complete edition features a new introduction by historian Philip J. Neihardt understood and conveyed Black Elk’s experiences in this powerful and inspirational message for all humankind. Neihardt in 1930 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and asked Neihardt to share his story with the world.

Whether appreciated as the poignant tale of a Lakota life, as a history of a Native nation, or as an enduring spiritual testament, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable.īlack Elk met the distinguished poet, writer, and critic John G. Neihardt, have made this book a classic that crosses multiple genres. Black Elk’s searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth, conveyed by John G. Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time.
