Nebraska's Poet

Published: Jan. 8, 2020, 4:10 p.m.

b'Rosie remembers the work of poet John G. Neihardt, born on this day in Illinois in 1881. Though a poet, he will forever be known for sharing the stories of Native Americans who were displaced by the migration of Europeans across this country and especially across Nebraska. His most famous work was of his conversations with a Lakota Sioux medicine man in the book "Black Elk Speaks".'