In looking over the many online databases that Linebaugh has to offer, I first looked at the p4A Antiques Reference database where I looked up several pieces of furniture that I owned. I enjoyed looking at the photos of the items, but didn't have much success in locating any of the pieces that I owned. I ended up going to the Biography Resource Center to see if I could locate a brief biography of Black Elk, a Lakota Sioux medicine man. Since my oldest daughter has been going on mission trips to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota for seven years now and plans to move there in the spring, a friend recommended she read the book Black Elk Speaks by John Neihardt, Nebraska's poet laureate (1931). Nicholas Black Elk experienced the Battle of Little Big Horn as a teenager, Custer's last stand, witnessed Wounded Knee and was part of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. He became a Roman Catholic, but never let go of the "great vision" that he had at age nine while dealing with a life-threatening illness.
I found the database to be easy to use, with access to as little or as much information as I cared to read. This would be extremely helpful in helping students with reports or anyone just wanting to find information about someone--from birth/death dates to their writings/philosophies, etc.
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