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The Joe Rogan Experience
The hosts discussed the book for its detailed look at Sioux life before Custer, highlighting its coverage of the Ghost Dance and broader cultural significance, and noted its surprising inclusion of topics like the invention of the automobile. Both mentioned it as an informative account they were reading, without overt recommendation.
Episode: #1442 - Shannon O'Loughlin
She noted the book's focus on life before Custer's death and later discussed its coverage of the Ghost Dance and its cultural significance.
and then I read Black Elk.
One of the things that they talked about in Black Elk was the practice of the ghost dance, this idea that they were going to somehow or another bring back the old ways and it's a sad, sad story. When you hear them talk about it especially because it's coming from the words of Black Elk who was a guy that was there with the battle of Little Bighorn.
Episode: #1422 - Lex Fridman
They discussed a book about Black Elk, noting that it covered historical events and even detailed the invention of the automobile.
I'm this book on Black Elk.
In this book that I'm in the middle of, I'm actually towards the end of this Black Elk book; it details the invention of the automobile and how the world changes.
Episode: #1415 - Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss said she was reading Black Elk Speaks, calling it her favorite book so far and noting it was written by the Oglala Lakota medicine man Black Elk.
and the more books I read now I'm on Black Elk Speaks which is my favorite one so far because Black Elk Speaks is an actual man named Black Elk who's a Oglala Lakota medicine man who in the 1930s told his story
