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By John G. Neihardt

“[Eagle Voice Remembers] is John Neihardt’s mature and reflective interpretation of the outdated Sioux lifestyle. He served as a translator of the Sioux prior, whose viewers has proved to not be constrained by way of house or time. via his writings, Black Elk, Eagle Elk, and different outdated males who have been of that final iteration of Sioux to have participated within the previous buffalo-hunting lifestyles and the disorienting interval of strife with the U.S. military stumbled on a literary voice. What they acknowledged chronicles a dramatic transition within the lifetime of the Plains Indians; the checklist in their techniques, interpreted via Neihardt, is a legacy preserved for the long run. It transcends the specifics of this one tragic case of cultural false impression and clash and speaks to common human issues. it's a tale worthy considering either for itself and for the teachings it teaches all humanity.”—Raymond J. DeMallie
 
In her foreword to Eagle Voice Remembers, Coralie Hughes discusses Neihardt’s goal that this ebook, previously titled When the Tree Flowered, be understood as a prequel to his vintage Black Elk Speaks.

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7. Undated letter draft in the hand of John G. Neihardt addressed to Mr. Hobson, with “Suggestions For Screening Black Elk Speaks,” Neihardt papers, Western Historical Manuscripts Collection, University of Missouri. 8. John G. Neihardt to Mona Neihardt, November 29, 1944. Photostatic copy in the Neihardt papers, Western Historical Manuscripts Collection, University of Missouri. 9. Westerners Brandbook (Chicago) vol. 8 (1951): p. 76. INTRODUCTION TO THE BRITISH EDITION I have been asked to furnish a brief Introduction to the following tale by way of suggesting the sources upon which I have drawn.

Then the second grandmother would take some of the inside bark of the chokecherry that had been soaked and pounded soft, and with this she would wash the baby; and if it was a girl she would say to it: ‘I am a good woman; I have worked hard; I have raised a family; and I always tried to get along with everybody. ’ After that she would make it dry and rub it all over with grease and red paint, because red is a sacred color. Then she would take some soft powder that she had made by powdering dry buffalo chips and she would put this in a piece of hide that had been tanned very soft and fasten it around the baby’s rump, so that it could be kept dry and clean.

There is noise everywhere—cries everywhere. We are swarming up along the sides of the ridge. The arrows are a cloud. They are grasshoppers clouding the sun. The soldiers’ horses are feathered. They are screaming in the evening that the arrows make. They are crowding back up the hill in the smoke of the guns. Saddles are empty; feathered soldiers are falling. They are fighting hard and falling, full of arrows, and the kicking horses upon them are sprouting feathers. “They are all dead at the ford.

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