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Black Elk Speaks, 1932, William Morrow & Company.
- 1961 University of Nebraska Press edition with a new preface by Neihardt.
- 1979 edition with an introduction by Vine Deloria, Jr.
- 1988 edition: Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, as told through John G. Neihardt (Flaming Rainbow), ISBN 0-8032-8359-8.
- 2000 edition with index: ISBN 0-8032-6170-5.
- Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, The Premier Edition, 2008, SUNY Press, Albany, NY, ISBN 978-1-4384-2540-5, with annotations by Raymond DeMallie, author of The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt (1985). The premier edition by the State University of New York Press, under its Excelsior Editions, is the first annotated edition. It includes reproductions of the original illustrations by Standing Bear, with new commentary; new maps of the world of Black Elk Speaks; and a revised index.[7]
- Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition, 2014, University of Nebraska Press.
Adaptation
The book was adapted into a play by Christopher Sergel, John G. Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks, in the 1970s where it was staged by the Folger Theatre in Washington, D.C., and then taken on a national tour in 1978, and later restaged in 1992 with a revised version.[8]
Shortly after Sergel's death, his revised version of the play “Black Elk Speaks”. opened in Jan. 1995. A Denver Center Theatre Company production, its actors included Ned Romero and Peter Kelly Gaudreault. [9]
One of the stage presentations was the first 'paying gig' for Wes Studi, with the lead played by none other than David Carradine.[10]
