Black Elk Speak Summary

The reading called Black Elk Speaks brings out many problems that the white people did to ruin the Native Americans way of life. Black Elk is telling his story to John Neihardt and John translated it. Black Elk is telling a story about how the white people roads ruin the way of life for the Native Americans. He relies on pathos to inform us on what the white people did. He is mourning about the loss of his tribe members. Some of the tribe meant a lot to him. Since he was the holy medicine man everyone meant a lot to him. “They had a dog with them,and started back up the road for the soldiers’ town, howling as he ran. He was the only one left. I did not shoot at him because he looked to sweet.” He is using a lot of of emotion about