Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota

"An unprecedented account of the shaman's world and the way it is entered."

-STANLEY KRIPPNER, PH.D., coauthor of 'Personal Mythology: The Psychology of Your Evolving Self' and 'Healing States'

Wallace Black Elk, a Lakota elder shaman, was born in 1921 on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. He traveled widely across North America, Europe, and Asia, addressing large groups and conducting healing ceremonies. Anthropologist William S. Lyon has taught at Ashland College in Oregon and at the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked with Wallace Black Elk for more than years.