Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition

National and International Honors Received by John G. Neihardt

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL HONORS RECEIVED BY JOHN G. NEIHARDT 1919 Song of Three Friends named Best Volume of Verse by the Poetry Society of America 1921 Named Poet Laureate of Nebraska by act of the Nebraska State Legislature 1925 Admitted as the first civilian member to the Order of the Indian Wars of the United States, Washington dc 1927 The Song of the Indian Wars is chosen as one of the 500 Volumes of World Literature for the White House Library, Washington dc Neihardt is designated Foremost Poet of the Nation by the National Poetry Center, New York 1943 Admitted as member to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York 1947 Receives Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia 1951 Named Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, New York (serves until 1967) 1953 A Cycle of the West chosen as one of the World’s Best Books from Homer to Hemingway 1959 Named a Fellow of the International Institute of Arts and Letters, Lindau, Germany 1967 Named Nebraska’s Poet of the Century Named one of the top ten persons making the most significant contribution to Nebraska in the first 100 years of statehood (poll of historians and history teachers conducted by the WorldHerald Newspapers, Omaha) Named Prairie Poet Laureate of America by United Poets Laureate International 1971 Receives the Mari Sandoz Award from the Nebraska State Library Association 1972 Receives the Nebraska Builder Award from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln Receives Doctor of Letters degree from Midland Lutheran College, Fremont ne 1974 January 8: Honored by the Nebraska State Legislature for fiftytwo years of service as Poet Laureate of Nebraska March 21: Inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame 1982 Named Poet Laureate in Perpetuity by the Nebraska Committee for the Humanities 2000 Black Elk Speaks chosen as one of the Top Ten Spiritual Books of the Century Since its initial publication, Black Elk Speaks has been translated into more than twenty languages, including French, Italian, Finnish, and Latvian. xxxviii Honors Received by John G. Neihardt ...