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John G. Neihardt American novelist and poet John G. Neihardt reading to his students in a class at the University of Missouri at Columbia, c. 1960s.

John G. Neihardt

American poet
Also known as: John Gneisenau Neihardt
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John G. Neihardt (born January 8, 1881, near Sharpsburg, Illinois, U.S.—died November 3, 1973, Columbia, Missouri) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer who described the history of Native Americans, especially the Oceti Sakowin (Sioux) people. His best-known works are Black Elk Speaks (1932), an autobiography of the Oglala Lakota warrior and holy man Black Elk, and A Cycle of the West (1949). Neihardt was born in Illinois but grew up in Kansas and...

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