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“Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is.”

 -- Black Elk, in Black Elk Speaks

 

Black Elk-Neihardt Park in Blair, Nebraska, is a city park named for Black Elk, an Oglala Lakota, and John G. Neihardt, Nebraska's Poet Laureate. Neihardt is the author of Black Elk Speaks, which he wrote after a series of interviews with Black Elk in 1931 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where Black Elk lived.

Auditions for a Nebraska stage production of John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks  will be held May 22-24, 2009 in Lincoln, Omaha & Blair.  Production dates will be July 15-18, 2009. 

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The Black Elk-Neihardt Park Corporation, a 501(c)3 organization, and the Blair Parks Department work together in planning, funding and implementing this park..