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Black Elk-Neihardt Park in Blair, Nebraska, is a city park named for Black Elk, an Oglala Lakota, and John G. Neihardt, Nebraska's Poet Laureate. Neihardt is the author of Black Elk Speaks, which he wrote after a series of interviews with Black Elk in 1931 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where Black Elk lived. |
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mourn the death of Paul Thomsen, 64, on February 16, 2008. As vice
president of the Black Elk-Neihardt Park Corporation, Paul was an
invaluable contributor to recent improvements at the park. He was the
son of the late Rev. F. W. "Bill" and Orpa Thomsen. It was
Pastor Thomsen, an artist, whose inspiration led to the creation of
Black Elk-Neihardt Park and its mosaics, and Paul was dedicated to the
continuing development of the park in ways that honor this legacy. He
will be greatly missed. -- The Black Elk-Neihardt Park
Corporation Board. |
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