The Book Prize Index

Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary

Joe Jackson

"Describes the life of the Native American holy man who fought at Little Big Horn, witnessed the death of his cousin Crazy Horse, traveled to Europe as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and became a traditionalist in the Ghost Dance movement"--

BiographyBiography · medium confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryAward Category: National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography -> BiographyBlack History & CultureIntellectual Biography

Award History

2 wins · 4 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Francis Parkman Prize2017WinnerSecondary source
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography2017WinnerSecondary source
Cundill History PrizeMajor2017LonglistSecondary source
National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyMajor2016FinalistSecondary source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    • Black Elk85%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Little Big Horn70%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    32 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 78%.