Ben Black Elk and The Second Life of The Oral Legacy
In 1931, Ben Black Elk translated his father's words for John Neihardt. Afterward and, increasingly after his father's death in 1950, Ben Black Elk visited local schools on the Pine Ridge Reservation to tell the traditional stories of the Lakota history and culture. Warfield Moose, Sr., a Lakota educator, recorded some of these sessions. In 1996 he entrusted the tapes of Ben Black Elk to his son, Warfield Moose, Jr.
Warfield Moose, Jr. made a CD of the recordings, released in 2003 as Ben Black Elk Speaks''. It won the award for "Best Historical Recording" at the 2003 Native American Music Awards.
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