Sender of Words, A - Essays in Memory of John G. Neihardt

More than any other man of the twentieth century, John G. Neihardt captured the essence of the western experience, particularly that part of it arising from two cultures' encounters with the Great Plains and each other. Now, over one hundred years after John Neihardt's birth in a rented Illinois farm shack, Vine Deloria Jr., a Sioux Indian whose series of controversial and insightful books has forced many to rethink preconceived notions about American Indian history and politics, has gathered a collection of notable authors, historians, critics, and scholars to consider and comment on Neihardt's life and work.