By John G. Neihardt
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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.