BLACK ELK SPEAKS: SUMMER READING About Black Elk Speaks Introduction In August 1930, the Midwestern writer John Neihardt went with his son Sigurd to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to speak with Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux. Neihardt was in the process of completing A Cycle of the West, an epic poem concerning the history of the American West. He had published the fourth section, The Song of the Indian Wars, and was looking for material for the final section, The Song of the Messiah. Neihardt had earlier become acquainted with Indian culture when he lived near the Omaha reservation at Bancroft, Nebraska, and he knew Black Elk's reputation as a holy man and the second cousin to the great Sioux Chief Crazy Horse. When the two men met, Black Elk recognized that Neihardt was a sympathetic listener, someone interested in the spiritual world and in Indian history.
He shined shoes to pay for his classes and stayed in a boarding house. After a year in Canyon, he decided to head to Lubbock, Texas. He got a job at a dry goods store in Downtown Lubbock, where he worked in the afternoons and attended his classes at Texas Tech in the mornings. At that time, Texas Tech was two miles from town. He found a boarding house to stay in that was right in the middle of both work and school.
The paper includes an appendix with other suggestions for Appalachian work to be used in units typically presented in high school language arts courses. In a poignant chapter entitled “Medal of Honor,” from Fred Chappell’s 1989 Brighten the Corner Where You Are, teacher Joe Robert is summoned to the principal’s office where a poor farming couple, Pruitt and Ginny, await him. Describing the couple, who fed and clothed their four children on their “flinty acres,” Joe Robert sees them as a vanishing breed, disappearing, as even “the mountains were beginning to change.” Joe Robert, his son tells us, muses on the expression “salt of the earth”:
His father introduced him to mountaineering when he was 8 years old. He went to Hampshire College in 1976. Krakauer worked mainly as a carpenter and commercial salmon fisherman. He lived in Colorado, Alaska, and the Pacific Northwest. In May 1996 he reached the top of Mt.
Growing up Eric's family often relocated, because Eric's father was a U.S. Air Force transport pilot, while his mother was a homemaker. The Harris family had finally settled in Littleton, Colorado in 1993, when Eric's father had retired from military service. After settling in Littleton, Eric met Dylan Klebold who was born on September 11, 1981, in Lakewood, Colorado. Growing up Klebold's family had attended a Lutheran Church, where Dylan had attended confirmation classes in accordance with Lutheran traditions. The pair had both entered Columbine High School, where Harris and Klebold were labeled as the “unpopular kids,” which made them frequent targets of bullying at their high school.
His first musical inspirations were by such talents as: Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard. He formed several bands in high school like Shadow Blasters which was short-lived, but his next band, The Golden Chords, lasted longer and played covers of popular songs. After Dylan graduated from high school, he joined University of Minnesota in early 1959. University was where the thought of becoming a musical artist formed. Dylan begun to listen to folk and rock pioneers: Hank Williams, Robert Johnson and Woody Guthrie.
Robert Allen Zimmerman[or Bob Dylan] (1941- Still alive) Folk/rocker, songwriter and singer, Robert Allen Zimmerman, was born in May 24, 1941 – in Duluth, Minnesota, United States (A&E). He started playing several instruments as a teenager and began performing as soon as he entered the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in 1959. He performed in bars, cafes, etc., with his band called “The Golden Chords” (Bob). The instruments he played with his band were the guitar and harmonica (RealNetworks). He gained recognition with the name of Bob Dylan; therefore, he lawfully and officially changed his name to Bob Dylan in August, 1962 (A&E).
“Kevin is the author of seven highly regarded novels including Martyn Pig, Lucas, Kissing the Rain, Candy and The Road of the Dead” (Scholastic, 1). He now lives in North Yorkshire. In Kevin Brooks’s career he has drifted through a number of jobs in his early years after college. He sieved ashes in a crematorium, was a zoo keeper, selling stamps at a post office, and also trying to become a musician. After he developed the patience to be a writer he gave all of these jobs up.
He was born fourth child of six children. He has described his childhood as ‘anti-intellectual’ which was dominated by a religiosity of the fundamentalist type. When Rogers was twelve years old his family moved from suburbia to a farm and it was during this time, that through his father’s decision to run the farm on a scientific basis, Rogers developed an interest in agriculture which lead him to enter Agricultural College at the University of Wisconsin in 1919. While at College Rogers felt a religious calling and began training to become a Protestant minister, he graduated in 1924 and enrolled at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. From there he transferred to Teachers College at Columbia University where he enrolled to study counselling rather than strictly religious aspect of his ministerial profession.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni was born in India in 1956 and resided there until 1976. At the age of 19 she left Calcutta , India for an education and traveled to the United States, after her extensive drive for an education in the field of English. She received her Masters in English from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio at the age of 20 and she received her Doctorate from the University of California at Berkley. She held many odd jobs for the satisfaction of the end result. She currently lives in Texas with her husband Murthy and her two sons Arand and Abhay.