Author: Black Elk

Cited by

• Alice Walker (1)
  • IN: Meridian (1976) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now... I can still 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 dream died there. It was a beautiful draem... the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead.
    FROM: Black Elk Speaks, (1932), Book, US