John Gneisenau Neihardt - Lincoln, NE
N 40° 48.494 W 096° 41.981
14T E 694026 N 4520016
Bust and plaque honoring John G. Neihardt, the first Poet Laureate of Nebraska.
Waymark Code: WM17WD8
Location: Nebraska, United States
Date Posted: 04/12/2023
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John Gneisenau Neihardt (January 8, 1881 – November 3, 1973) was an American writer and poet, amateur historian and ethnographer. Born at the end of the American settlement of the Plains, he became interested in the lives of those who had been a part of the European-American migration, as well as the Indigenous peoples whom they had displaced.
His best-known work is
Black Elk Speaks (1932), which Neihardt presents as an extended narration of the visions of the Lakota medicine man Black Elk.-
John Neihardt.
The commemoration on his plaque in the
Nebraska Hall of Fame located in the Capitol in Lincoln, Nebraska reads:
JOHN GNISENAU NEIHARDT
1881 - 1973
NEBRASKA POET LAUREATE
1921 - 1973
EPIC POET OF THE WEST
HISTORIAN - PHILOSOPHER
FRIEND OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
MY GOD AND I SHALL INTERKNIT
AS RAIN AND OCEAN, BREATH AND AIR;
AND O, THE LURING THOUGHT OF IT
IS PRAYER
-FROM L'ENVOI
ELECTED TO NEBRASKA HALL OF FAME 1974