 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly online event, webinar, webcast, and online show. The terminology is up for debate. Some people really hate that word webinar. Whatever we are called, we are here live online every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time. If you're unable to join us on Wednesday mornings, that's fine. We do record the show every week as we are this morning, and you can always go back to our website afterwards at your convenience and watch the recording, and I'll show you at the end of today's show where to get all of those recordings. You've never seen that before. Both the live show and the recording are free and open to anyone to watch, so please do share with your colleagues, friends, neighbors, family, anybody who you think might be interested in any of our topics on the show. 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You might see a title of a show and say, but trust me, everything has to come back to libraries in the end. All types of libraries. We are the Nebraska Library Commission. We serve all types and sizes of libraries. Small, rural, medium-large, universities, public, special, correctional facilities, anything. Museums. So very, very broad in what you'll find on the show. We do have a Nebraska Library Commission staff that sometimes do some commission-specific things, programs, services, things that we're doing here at a library commission. But we also bring in guest speakers as we have this morning. One of the things that I do, my left here, is Amy Cousera, is that right? Good trip. I had a friend in college who's last name was Cousera. Everyone pronounces it different. Yeah, that was back in New York. Okay. And she's going to talk to us about a whole mixture of things, really, as well. The One Book One Nebraska this year, and Nebraska is Black Elk Speaks. And Amy is the Executive Director of the Historic Site for Jen Nyhart, who is the author of that, so nice connection. Yeah. This is a lot of things going on this year, some things I know have already started, because it's the 2017 book. But I'm just going to hand over to Amy to talk about the Historic Site and the book and the author and what's going on. She's going to share a whole bunch of different things about what's related to all this. Okay, well, I'll just hand over to you. You can either use the mouse or the keyboard to move along your slides, whichever works for you. Great. Thank you so much for having me today. And it's really an honor to represent the John G. Nyhart State Historic Site. And we are a branch museum of the Nebraska State Historical Society in Bancroft, Nebraska. And Bancroft is a smaller town and the Nyhart Center. And the Nyhart Site itself includes an educational center, a two-and-a-half-acre site that on it is a garden actually designed by Nyhart, and the study that Nyhart actually wrote his works. And Nyhart lived in Bancroft from 1900 to 1920, but he rented the study for writing specifically from 1911 to 1920. This is more than just a writer. Yes, yes. It's a mining gardens. Yes. He and I chose, I could have chosen a lot of different titles. Mystic came to mind because there is just this mystical history of, the more I've learned about both men, both Black Elk and Nyhart, the more I realized that that was really a, there was guiding forces. There's words that have been attributed to them, that people describe them. They pass before I was born, but I do feel really close learning about them. And Mystic is a word that was often used. And so I have learned reasons why. And if you come visit the Nyhart Center, we can talk about that portion more. But there's so much to talk about today. And I'm going to go ahead and just go with the first slide to share with people. This is the Nyhart's most well-known book published. This version here is the 2014 Complete Edition published by the University of Nebraska Press. But the book was originally published in 1932. And it stemmed from conversations that Nyhart had with Nicholas Black Elk on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1931. And it was actually 86 years ago this month, this time. And it's really very, this version is very much filled with a lot of the historical photographs. There's also drawings from Black Elk's friend, Standing Bear, that accompany the book, as well as just extensive historical research and essays to also guide people when reading. And we're celebrating this honor of being one book one Nebraska this year at the Nyhart Center by hosting every other week. We host a chapter reading. And it's really been a very awesome way to not only bring new people to share the book, but also get in the discussion of Black Elk speaks a little more. So I'm just going to go through here with some of my photos. There are so many to choose from, so I've just chosen a few. And feel free to ask questions. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have. And I'll talk a little bit about Nyhart himself. He was born in 1881 and moved around a little bit with his family before actually settling in Wayne. And that's where he attended Wayne State College at age 16. And when you come to the Nyhart Center, or actually graduated at age 16, there's so many fascinating stories behind Nyhart. And again, I could talk all day, and I know we have limited time, but this photograph here is when he was honored in 1921 as Nebraska's poet laureate in perpetuity. And that was just one of many honors that he received in his life. And he had been working in Bancroft not only on poetry and just books, but he began his epic poem, A Cycle of the West, which was his life work really, and eventually led him to Black Elk for the research he was doing. It is five volumes, and it really details the history of the settlement of the American West. And so he was researching for his volume, Song of the Messiah, and was researching the ghost dance movement in the 1880s on the Pine Ridge Reservation, what's now known as Pine Ridge Reservation, and that's what eventually led him to Black Elk. It's also a neat story too, but so this is a view from the interior of his study, where he did begin writing The Cycle of the West, and we have that is on the ground, the original site, and the really neat story about this building itself is it actually had fallen into disrepair in the 1960s, and it was originally a one-room structure, no electricity, no indoor restrooms, and it was used as a house, but Neyhart actually lived adjacent to this study, but rented it and wrote poetry in the mornings. And we have it set up as it would be when he was using it, so it's really neat because when it fell into disrepair, there was local women from Bancroft Garden Club that knew that it was going to be very important to not only preserve the structure, but when Neyhart came back to visit Bancroft, he was the first person to put $100 down on the restoration of it, so in 1967 it was restored, and the Neyhart Foundation then came into existence and decided eventually then to create a bigger educational center in his honor, and so Neyhart passed in 1973 and was not able to... He knew that that was underway, but the center itself opened in 1976, so... So Neyhart was coming. Yeah, and our center includes a research library and a museum display as well as exhibits, and we do events and gift shop and all sorts of fun, interesting things, and so this photograph here, I have to mention his wife, Mona Neyhart, Mona Martinson. She was from New York and was studying in Paris with the sculptor Rodin and actually got a copy of his poetry, and she was so enamored with it that she wrote him and they began a correspondence, and eventually when she came back to New York and he invited her to Nebraska, and she came to Nebraska and he went to go pick her up in Omaha at the train station and he had a marriage license in his pocket and they were wed the next day, and so she's so very talented, artist in her own right, and their relationship was just a really beautiful one and one of their daughters Hilda wrote about, has a book about their relationship specifically, and there are so many great stories with those two, but she was a big part of his life and influence too, and the bust that she had created and some of her other sculpt works are actually on display here there at the Neyhart Center too. So speaking of sculptures, we've had a lot of really great things happen. I've been the director at the Neyhart Center since 2015, and so in the last couple years I've just not only had incredible experiences meeting people, but seeing the projects come to fruition that the Neyhart Foundation have put underway many, many years before my time, and so this was one of them. This is larger-than-lifestyle sculpture of Black Elk and Neyhart representing their time together, and in this photograph you can't really see as well, but Black Elk is actually praying in Neyhart. He's holding a book and it's just a really neat way to, again, have people be greeted as they visit the Neyhart Center and it's an awesome addition to our grounds, and that was by the sculptor Herb Minnery. So that was unveiled at the Neyhart Day celebration, which is the first Sunday in August. We celebrate Neyhart Day. This year we'll celebrate the 52nd, and they'll have the dedication and the naming. The Neyhart Foundation asked the public to submit names for that. Again, another nice touch for our One Book One Nebraska connection there is to have that dedication ceremony, and this year that will be the Neyhart Day, always the first Sunday in August, this year August 6th, so everyone's invited. I want to mention that getting back to Black Elk Speaks, the book itself, it was published in 1932, and it received a really praise from critics and readers, but it didn't have high volume in sales, and so it kind of faded, and it was Marie Sanders, and she, they had mutual friends in Lincoln, and this is actually a photograph taken in 1962 in Lincoln, and they both admired each other's work and wrote about the same topics and researched extensively on the same subjects, again with the American West, and she had suggested to, University of Nebraska Press was going to create Bison Books, the edition, special editions, and they asked her for her opinion on which books might be good for that, and she named many, and she also named Black Elk Speaks because it was very difficult to find a copy. So they, of all her suggestions, that was the only one they chose, but we were glad for that, I think, but even before then, Carl Jung actually got a hold of a copy too, and again it was kind of difficult to come by, but he was influenced by it and kind of saw a resurgence in Europe, and now we can say that it's been translated in over 20 languages, the book itself, and we kind of see that visitors come from all over the world to learn about Neihart and about Black Elk Speaks because of their connection to that book, but Neihart's written, he was really a prolific writer, he wrote over 25 works, again his greatest, I guess it took him definitely the longest of all, and he spent most of his life working on the cycle of the West, a great part of his life. Sure, yeah, that was a pretty expansive topic. But again it was Black Elk Speaks that kind of, even the popularity just soared after his appearance in 1971 with Dick Cavett on the Dick Cavett show, and we were so honored to have Dick Cavett visit us this year, and that was just incredible, and just to hear his recollections of Neihart, and that is one interview that just is really touching and inspirational and really informative, and Neihart would have been in his 90s when he not only spoke about all his memories, but recited from memory lines from his epic cycle of the West, the death of Crazy Horse, and that's really an emotional reading that a lot of people have been inspired by too, and so the book really took off, Black Elk Speaks really took off after that, and Neihart's legacy even grew after his death, and so again having Dick Cavett come to the museum, we shared with him that is one of our best selling items that's not a book related, and he gave us the Neihart Foundation, I should say, exclusive rights to reproduce and sell, so we do have copies of that 1971 interview at our gift shop. And here's an image from, this is a newly renamed Black Elk Peak, that's me and my dog, I had to give him a special haircut, he's a great Pyrenees, but it was August, and it was nice enough where we could go up there, but I want to mention the girl next to me is actually a researcher, her name's Katia, and she came all the way to Nebraska for Neihart Day. This would have been three days after Neihart Day, and the day after the name change of Black Elk, really it was Harney Peak, and at the time when the conversations with Black Elk Speaks was concluded, and Black Elk shared his vision that he had when he was nine years old with Neihart, and other history as well, but to really kind of bring this around, Black Elk wanted to physically go to Harney Peak, it's a sacred site for the Lakota people, and now it has been renamed for Black Elk, but that legacy there includes Neihart, because it was actually in the interviews himself, it was John Neihart and his daughter Enid, who was 19 and served as a sonographer during the conversations, and his 14-year-old daughter Hilda, who took a lot of the photographs during their conversations, and then Black Elk's son Ben and Black Elk himself, and they went here to the highest peak here in the east of the Mississippi, if I said that correctly, but it is one of the highest peaks in that area too, and I should mention I was just there yesterday with members of the foundation, so had a nice drive through Nebraska, a lot of good memories here, but we were here also the day of the name change, it was just a thrill, but the researcher was studying the petition for the canonization of St. Hood for Black Elk, so there's a whole another story that extends beyond Black Elk Speaks, and that's kind of to bring it up to modern day, but also getting back to the family, the Neihart family and the Black Elk family, who are pictured here, this is the 50th Neihart Day celebration, and the Neihart family photograph, or what is in the photograph here is the grandson, Robin Neihart, is actually returning on that one photograph with his daughter, and then his Neihart's granddaughter, Coralie Hughes, is pictured in the other photograph too, there with Myron Fourier, the great, great grandson of Black Elk, and also Jerome Killsmall, who offered an honor, a prayer song. This was a really special day, it was a surprise to Myron, who actually had been invited by the family too, and all of us to share the efforts for the name change from Harni Peak to Black Elk Peak at that time, it was just beginning, and it was just a really special day in the garden, and to have both of the families there, and as part of our activities, it's just always such an honor. So I just wanted to share that with folks, that they returned the bow and arrows that were originally gifted from Black Elk, Nicholas Black Elk to John Neihart, back to the family to strengthen not only the bond, but the efforts for that name change, and here we are. Do you remember seeing these photos? Yeah, it was so special, and we are really, at our museum too, we have a lot of the sacred artifacts that were given to John Neihart, because he was adopted by Black Elk in the Lakota way, in the Lakota traditional ceremony, and so were his two daughters, Enid and Hilda, and even given traditional names, and Neihart's traditional name translates, it connects to the vision that he gave, that he shared. So that's kind of the end of some of the photos I brought today, but I did want to also maybe share a couple of websites that are pretty valuable. Sure. So yeah, we'll kick it off here with Brassica Library Commission, again, the honor of the One Book One Nebraska this year. This website's a really great resource. We tell people all the time about how excited we are to have this as well, and so you can also find a lot of events here that are related. There's two of our board members are actually speakers with the humanities in Nebraska, and so we also have a special event every year, the spring conference in this year, because of the designation we focused on Lakota biographies, and again, one of our board members, Tim Anderson, has written and published recently a new biography about Neihart, that's just such a valuable resource. We also have... That's interesting, there's still things being written about for so many years later, and new things to learn about. Yeah, and I just thought of another website, so I'll share that one here after I share these other two, but there's a lot of resources out there, and again, I'm always happy to connect with anyone who's maybe looking for ways or looking for either special information or ways that they can explore any of the works of John Neihart, and this website here is just a great resource for the One Book One Nebraska. We do also a Facebook page on Facebook. Oh, yeah. There it is. The One Book One Nebraska page, and this will get you any information about that, and this is actually One Book One Nebraska every year, so if you follow this page, you'll get this year, you'll hear all about Blackout Speaks, and then in future years whatever those next books are. Is it still open for nominations? I think they just announced the potential nominees are. Oh, nice. Yeah, I thought so. Okay, cool, very cool. I'll have to cruise around your guys' faces. There's some events this weekend, isn't there? Yeah. Well then, we're on the Facebook kick here. Ours is also facebook.com slash Neihart site, and this is where you're going to find a lot of our events, and here's actually even a story about yesterday's journey, but just different photographs. We try to keep it pretty well updated with all the different things, especially our events here. Again, we do our Sunday program. This year, we're extending it. It was originally a monthly program, but we extended it to weekly except for holidays, because it's just really important for us to share in different ways the museum and invite people to attend any of our events. They're free. We're an admission-free museum, and we welcome groups, we welcome students, we welcome individuals, and even by appointment, too, if people had made the journey to Bancroft, we'd be more than happy to open the museum. Oh, I'm sorry, I was wrong. The One Book One Lincoln filest was renamed this week two days ago. Oh, different. So the nominations might still be open. Yeah, for the One Book, yeah, that's not been, yeah, for 2018. Awesome, awesome. This is our website for the Nye Heart Foundation, and this website itself was designed by the Wayne State College graphic design class, and their professor, Joshua Persanti, and they really help us through a service learning program every year, and this was one of the service learning projects. So you can cruise around here and find out different things, different photographs, different events here. There's even a clip here of Nye Heart with Dick Cabot, and it might be a little long for today, but that's a clip of the death of Crazy Horse, which, again, was just a really powerful recitation. So another website I thought of that I use a lot of resource is the nyeheart.unl.edu, and this is the Across the Spectrum website, and the Interdisciplinary Life and Letters of John D. Nye Heart. This website has offered me personally just a lot of information at the touch of your fingertips, really. All of we at the Nye Heart Research Library have either original or copies of his letters and correspondence and also essays and reviews, but it's really neat because you can search by date, or you can even just search open, but you can even see letters that Nye Heart wrote to the Black Elk family, even Nye Heart to get permission to even be on the reservation at that time to go meet with Black Elks. And you can browse to and see all the different people that he did write to, and also his collection of essays and reviews are rather extensive and also very interesting and enjoyable to read. So this website was put together by the Center for Digital Research of the Humanities, and Dr. Pamela Gossin is the one who is behind all this. She's a professor of History and Science and Literary Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. She also had some volunteers and interns help with this in cooperation with some other organizations, and this again has just been really a valuable resource for us. So that's just a little bit of what I have, and I actually, I mean, do we maybe have time to play that? It's about 10 minutes. Yeah, it's only like 10.35. Okay, I do talk a little fast maybe. I don't know if there's any questions before I go into that. If anyone does have any questions or comments or anything, you want to know, see anything more, you want to know anything more about what's going on with what's up speaks or anything at the Zurich site, of course. Type it into your question section of your GoToWebinar interface and we can entertain those questions. I think it's for the people that don't know, it's very, I've always wondered obviously Black Alp and the Lakota, they were very much embraced Nihart and his family. Before he reached out to him, I mean, who reached out to who about recording his Black Alp and what he's doing or documenting it. Did they know each other ahead of time? How did they get that obviously close relationship? Yeah, well it was really because Nihart had first made a trip in 1930 with his son, Sigurd, on the Pine Ridge Reservation to do research for his book and wanted to talk specifically he was doing research about the ghost dance movement and that history around the wounded knee massacre and the time before that and what led up to that. And again in this 1930 he did have to have special permission to even be there. To convince them I'm doing this just purely out of research and so the agent at the time of course gave him the permission and he didn't speak Lakota language and there was a translator, well the agent asked if anybody might be able to help Nihart to find someone. He was looking for someone who actually lived through lived the experience of that and so the one interpreter Flying Hawk said I'll take you to this man but he probably won't speak because other people haven't really visited he wouldn't really visit with them about his memories and so it's in the book in the I think it's the author's intro there's three different introductions in this complete edition, the newest edition and it includes the story about how when Black Elk was taken to or rather when Nihart was taken to Black Elk he had the feeling that Black Elk was almost there waiting for him and so it was Nihart, his son and the translator and Black Elk kind of expressed that he wanted that Nihart had actually been sent there to preserve the vision he needed to come back in the spring and so they made big preparations both sides made preparations for this and when Nihart returned he brought his two daughters who assisted him during this time so I think it is something just to share I share this clip a lot because maybe some people wouldn't have listened to it on their own and not only is his writing really incredible and the way that he could express himself and again at this point he would have been early 90s, probably 91, 92 years old here they may have only read it and not actually and the full interview which is about an hour and a half long just full of incredible stuff but I'll just let it play here is Dr. Nihart at 90 spring again would you yes sir I have been talking to you about what happened before this rotation Crazy Horse had surrendered to Fort Robinson in the spring so that his people could eat, they were starving all winter they were eating ponies as they dropped dead from starvation the ponies were eating cotton and bark and it was a bitter murder and he surrendered not because of superior military power but because there was no bubble and there was nothing to eat and he was taken into Fort Robinson and there he was a ritual prisoner for all summer of course but in the fall he had heard rumors that to the effect that they were going to arrest him and imprison him for life and the Dr. O'Hughes, O'Florida in spite of the fact that they said I had a hair on my head and he fled to his uncle's camp Spotted Gale just like a little boy who wouldn't worry about it he saved and this is it when they learned that he had fled but when the white light broke along the east there wasn't any O'Hughes out of town he was an O'Hughes you know and Crazy Horse had vanished well they thought that now he was on the war fence up and down the dusty Hultham Panic Horseman's Bird till all the orders shattered the word of how that terror threatened every tale they found him in the camp of Spotted Gale alone they could hear with a face of care I am afraid of what went to happen there he said so many listen what I say and look and look I will not run away I want more people here you have my guns but have the world away the mighty ones had spoken words like bullets in the dark they reeked their age of blindness on a mark they cannot know then spoke the one who led the soldiers not a hair upon your head or sever any harm if you will go to Robinson for just a day or so and have a party with the soldiers he spoke believing and he won't believe so Crazy Horse went riding down the west and neither he nor any trooper guessed what doom now made a rather wagon road the highway to a half year ago where all the dead are splendidly alive in summer lingers and the bison thrive forever if the better hope could be true there was a gate of glory eroding through the sunset when the little cattle catered across the fort this one saw the populist parade the straining hush that somehow wasn't peace the bristling troops the Indian police drawn up was for a battle but it was wrong what made them hustle Crazy Horse along among the gleaming bayonets and eyes they're swept to look the quizzical surprise across his face he struggled with the guard their grips were steel their eyes were cold and hard like bayonets there was a door flung wide they would talk with him inside and all he would have been stifling, dim, interior poor terror over him he blinked about and saw the iron bars alone, nevermore to the neighborhood the stars are new to the civil goodness of the sun it sounds like the room of doom began to reveal the monstrous purpose of a lie the the desert the desert island and the ancient sky the long and lonely heavy look the general whipped up butcher knife dismayed the speaking squad and once again been so aface that many better men had died to see brown arms that was for kind the comrades arms looked rather behind the crimson with a gash and dropped aside don't touch me I am crazy horse he cried and leaving door charged upon the world to meet the end the frightened soldier heard his weight behind a jabbing bellicose and crazy horse plunged headlong in the dust variety the momentary dim ceased the people closing in went ominously silent for his face and one could hear the men breathing around the place where they were mighty now he strode to rise the wide blind stare of anguish in his eyes and someone shot a kill that devil quick a throaty memory on a running pick of gunlots woke among the cloudings and many a soldier frightened well they knew but kept up eight the moment might release to drop upon the bundled parts the peace of bloody curtain one began to talk he said come on out on the court one began to talk his tongue was drunken he was scared stiff and his tongue was drunken and his face was chopped but when a half he shouted what he spoke the crowd believed so few had seen the stroke nor was there any beating in the moon it seemed the soldier it seemed the chief had fallen sick soon perhaps a little breast would make him strong and silently they watched him born along a sagging bundle deer and mighty yet though from the sharp face he did with the sweat of agony already appeared in the list they laid him in an office of the coast and they laid him in an office of the coast there were soldiers forming in a solid square in an hollow square kept back the people silence people there a little while it seemed the man was dead he lays him still the west no longer bled among the crowd the dust began to creep then suddenly a star without a sleep by some old green remembered night alarm he strode to shout half a rose above an arm flared about him in an abandoned place the flare across the ashes of his face went out he spoke a name or a lay men sprained together what he strode to say so hard the panting neighbor of his words I had my village in my corner heard some powder where the man resolved my own I only wanted to be left alone I did not want to see return to fight the soldiers the brave fox brought the soldiers we were poor and they went our babies died for many lodges burned and it was cold we looked again and turned our faces westward it was just the same old young rose but brave fox came the dust his soldiers made was high and long I fought him and I whipped him was it wrong to ride him back my printer was my own I wanted to be let alone I did not want to see my people die they say I murdered long hair and they lie his people came to kill us and they died he choked and shivered staring hungry eyed as though to make the most of the white then like a child who feels the touching nights and cries the wilder beaming and in vain is the voice made lyrical with pain and terror the thing about to be I want to see you father come to me I want to see you mother war and war his cry has sailed the darkness of the door and from the doom get on the hollow square of soldiers wavering voices in his hand we cannot come they will not let us come but when it events the very voice was dumb and crazy horse was nothing but a name there was a little withered woman came behind the bed old man their eyes were given they sat beside the boy and formed a gift remembering the little names he knew before the great reading took him and he grew to be so mighty and the woman pressed a hand that men had feared against her breast and swayed and sang a sweet song out young we were in the village all night long there was a sound a morning in the dark and when the morning heard the metal arc the last great seal would salve you away before the Tony Drive on which he laid an old man tottered bowed about a deer and there was a wrinkled woman kept her ear without a sound and nothing in her eyes who knows the coming someone for he lies alone in the bottom of the bad clouds coyotes prowled about it and the voices of the owl assumed the day long south grows these many grasses and these many summers that gets me every time yeah but that really describes there's more to that of course and that's just part of his cycle of the west which ended up being 15,550 lines and again that led him to Black Elk and Crazy Horse and Black Elk were relatives third cousins as it were but in the Lakota way of life would have been considered brothers and so so much of Black Elk's speaks is not only about the vision that Black Elk had when he was nine and fell into a coma and had this great vision and then ended up sharing it eventually after getting some advice from the men within his tribe but the basic also the history of Black Elk during the 1860s to 1880s up until the massacre at Wounded Knee and also Fort Robinson is another state historic site as well and so just really great history and we just recommend everybody reads the book about both so I don't know if there's any questions I just really wanted to share that that was just amazing that he's reading them all just being able to recite the entire thing for that amount of time there's a lot of just powerful kind of moments that come out and really it's just such a delight to be in a place where people come and share either memories of their time with Neihart every once in a while we'll get someone, well often times people will know Ben Black Elk who Neihart also remained friends with Nicholas Black Elk past in 1950 and Ben passed in the 70s I believe it was the 70s in Neihart in 1973 and there's a lot of good footage again on our Facebook page we try to share clips and different things but there's also so much out there so I encourage anybody to come visit absolutely, it's not that far oh yeah it's about an hour and a half dry time and of course there's other things to seal on the way and do so so anybody have any questions do you want to ask Amy about Neihart or Black Elk or the location or the sites about one book on Nebraska we may have some other sessions coming up on end of the slide we usually do something about specifically about the one book one Nebraska program we don't have any we don't work on any schedule well if nobody has questions that's okay I have a lot of questions myself in life but you can always contact me on your website here or Facebook or anyhow you'd like so the Facebook site is that you that runs it that's myself and the email address here that goes directly to me so we just receive all sorts of contacts throughout all over the world it's just so awesome how many people are inspired and we hope if you haven't read it to give it a world because the remark I hear and especially the remark I hear all the time is that this book changed my life and I think knowing that I feel the same way it's kind of neat to know that it's just affected a lot of people and there was another interview that Neihart did that he expressed the theme of the vision and really the book itself is the unity and holiness of all life and that is something that I think needs to be remembered and shared more often than not Do you have any events at the site happening that are related to the one book? Yeah, yep, yep and our Facebook page has the most recently added and you can kind of see throughout the history right now the way our website is set up it only shows a couple of events at a time but our Facebook page we can put them up for quite a ways down the road and if it loads it'll show but our next one is every Sunday generally unless we're closed for holiday we have Sunday programs at 2 o'clock we call it Sunday at the museum and this Sunday coming up we're doing a chapter reading and those are real simple but really powerful because it just brings out a lot of different dialogue and discussion and we all sit in a circle in the memorial room where we're surrounded by all of these really special artifacts and items from from both men's life and Mona too there's so much so I encourage you all to join us If you've read the book to then go and see the actual the artifacts and see them in there it's great that this type of historic novel is historical but recent enough that everything is right there a lot of these I know novels are written about history or the Native Americans they're written separated in time a lot but this was like I said he met with him and wrote the book the very next year and they were and actually there's a huge difference when I say there's so much he he wrote extensively he returned Pine Ridge Reservation to Manderson to meet with Black Elk and Black Elk's friends and really peers but another book that is kind of a little bit more written a little bit differently than Black Elk's because it's called When the Tree Flowered and it's also been published as Eagle Voice Remembers and that book is each chapter is kind of stories that intermingle his conversations the true it's a fictional character that he created from real conversations and real things that happened and real stories from both Nicholas Black Elk and even an older elder from Nicholas was Eagle Elk and so it's really neat to know that that continued on and that was conversations in the 40s yeah here it is it's available from the University of Prescott Press from them publishing in 1991 but what? where did you find that one? oh yeah right here yep and you can actually yep and I want to mention too maybe you didn't say this but we do have a store not only online but we have an extensive collection that is in addition to this at the Neyhart Center so that have topics that are even related to Neyhart the ones that maybe not be listed here that we here we go here's some more that actually his Neyhart's daughter Hilda who's pictured oops that shows up there but she's on the left of that photograph and she writes about her memories and that's just a really nice and Hilda was very active in the Neyhart Foundation as well and this Black Elk lives is another one that has conversations with the Black Elk family and the former director Laura Uteck at the time met or teamed up with Hilda and really preserved a lot of just really great history and again there's other books including the Breitard Garment and that again was written by Hilda and the daughter and this here is the I guess what you would call unedited manuscript of Black Elk Speaks because Black Elk or rather Neyhart did make it readable for people because sometimes their conversations were really extensive oh sure, yeah we're just sitting there having conversations things are going to go on off of different tangents but this is a nice companion book if you like what you've read to want to get into it even more it's really nice too so there's a lot from the website you can offer your free shipping right now and there's different also Neyhart's grandson Robin who I mentioned earlier is a musician and his work as well I do want to mention really quick one more there's the Neyhart family and it's called the Neyhart Trust I believe it's Neyhart.com they also have really great website here that includes even more information that we don't have videos as well as when Neyhart invited the lecture series when he was a professor at the University of Missouri in Columbia he ended up recording and it was called Epic America and it was recorded and they're all available through the site too so it's really just awesome a lot of resources out there and we hope you enjoy well it doesn't look like anybody has any questions right now or during the show or desperate that they need to answer and that's okay go to the site there and reach out to Amy about anything that's going on go to the one book one Nebraska site if you're interested in what's going on with just that specific program but if you want to expand beyond that yeah thank you so much for the invitation today oh of course I've been very interested in reading this and getting these missiles so I'm asking more about it to see what's going on everywhere so I hope more people will get involved with the one book one Nebraska this year like I said we'll have more information coming about that in the future too and please join us for our celebration this year's extra they're all special this is 52nd Neyhart Day again it's free open to the public the program is admission free and this year we'll be honoring Ron Hall Nebraska educational television he's been the emcee at Neyhart Day this will be the 50th year for him and he was also both personal friends he is also personal friends with Dick Cavett but also he was with Mari Sandas and John Neyhart so also another wealth of information so that'll be August 6th Sunday alright well since nobody has typed in anything that's the main answer to be discussed right away then I think we'll wrap it up for today thank you thank you very much everyone for attending thank you Amy for coming down here to do this for us some of our presenters come on remotely this night some people can come here and be here I wanted to hang out yeah I hope you'll have a chance to go home and rest now actually I've got a group tour tomorrow at the museum alright so that we'll wrap it up for today's show it is being recorded as we speak here and it will be on our website which I'll just go to now and show you if you do luckily for us if you do google and hump us live so far nothing else is called that on the internet okay so all you have to do is type us in and you'll find our website we're right off the Nebraska Library Commission homepage of course we have our upcoming shows but right beneath those is a link to our archives and this is where today's will be listed um this is one from a couple weeks ago thank you love the recording a link to the presentation which is those photographs and then all the different websites that Amy mentioned linked here the Facebook pages the sites I'll have all of them grouped together we put them together in our delicious account so you have a one stop shopping for all of those ideally I should have this all ready and wrapped up and on here this afternoon great time as long as YouTube is the one as long as they cooperate and 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