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John Gneisenau Neihardt, poet, author, and historian, was born in Sharpsburg, IL on January 8, 1881. When he was ten, His family relocated to Wayne, NE. When he was sixteen, he graduated from Nebraska Normal College. His interest with Native American culture and lore began in 1901 with a move to next to the Omaha Reservation in Bancroft, NB. His most famous work is ''Black Elk Speaks'' (1932). It is based on conversations with a Lakota medicine man, and survivor of both Little Big Horn and the Wounded Knee Massacre. But Neihardt also wrote a number of very well done short stories about Native American Life. In 1970, interest in his work was again spurred by his appearance on the Dick Cavett Show at the age of eighty-nine. Three years later, on November 24, 1973, he died in Columbia, MO. ''Lonesome Dreamer: The Life of John G. Neihardt'' (2016), by Timothy G. Anderson, is a biography of his life. | John Gneisenau Neihardt, poet, author, and historian, was born in Sharpsburg, IL on January 8, 1881. When he was ten, His family relocated to Wayne, NE. When he was sixteen, he graduated from Nebraska Normal College. His interest with Native American culture and lore began in 1901 with a move to next to the Omaha Reservation in Bancroft, NB. His most famous work is ''Black Elk Speaks'' (1932). It is based on conversations with a Lakota medicine man, and survivor of both Little Big Horn and the Wounded Knee Massacre. But Neihardt also wrote a number of very well done short stories about Native American Life. In 1970, interest in his work was again spurred by his appearance on the Dick Cavett Show at the age of eighty-nine. Three years later, on November 24, 1973, he died in Columbia, MO. ''Lonesome Dreamer: The Life of John G. Neihardt'' (2016), by Timothy G. Anderson, is a biography of his life. | ||
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John Gneisenau Neihardt, poet, author, and historian, was born in Sharpsburg, IL on January 8, 1881. When he was ten, His family relocated to Wayne, NE. When he was sixteen, he graduated from Nebraska Normal College. His interest with Native American culture and lore began in 1901 with a move to next to the Omaha Reservation in Bancroft, NB. His most famous work is Black Elk Speaks (1932). It is based on conversations with a Lakota medicine man, and survivor of both Little Big Horn and the Wounded Knee Massacre. But Neihardt also wrote a number of very well done short stories about Native American Life. In 1970, interest in his work was again spurred by his appearance on the Dick Cavett Show at the age of eighty-nine. Three years later, on November 24, 1973, he died in Columbia, MO. Lonesome Dreamer: The Life of John G. Neihardt (2016), by Timothy G. Anderson, is a biography of his life.
Other fantastic stories not listed below are:
“The Triumph of Seha,” in his collection The Lonesome Trail (1907), and "Beyond the Spectrum," in his collection Indian Tales and Others (1988). (Dr. Charles G. Waugh)