Charles Eastman, or 'Ohiyesa' in Santee, came of age during a period of increasing tension and violence between Native and 'new' Americans. Raised to become a hunter-warrior, he was nevertheless persuaded by his Christianized father to enter the alien world of white society. A remarkably bright student, Eastman graduated from Dartmouth College and the Boston University School of Medicine. Later on he served as government physician at the Pine Ridge Agency (and tended casualties at Wounded Knee), as Indian Inspector for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and as Indian secretary for the YMCA, and helped found the Boy Scouts of America. Concurrently, however, he also worked on special congressional legislation to settle Sioux claims and was a charter member and later president of the Society of American Indians. It was his writing, though, which most clearly established Eastman's determination to hold on to his roots. In works such as "Indian Boyhood", "The Soul of the Indian", and "Indian Heroes and Chieftains" he reconfirmed his native heritage and tried to make white society aware of the Indians' contribution to American civilization.
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Pine Ridge, Crow Creek, New York, United States, Secretary of the Interior, South Dakota, American Indians, Dawes Act, Eastman Folder, Elaine Goodale Eastman, Charles Eastman, Ghost Dance, Santee Sioux, The Indian Today, American Indian Identity, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Baker Library, Indian Rights Association, Wounded Knee, White Ghost, Standing Rock, American Indian Magazine, Indian Boyhood, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Santee Normal New!
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NEW YEAR'S DAY 1891 dawned clear and cold at Pine Ridge Reservation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
renaming project, government physician, immediate citizenship, lecture engagements, ghost dancers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pine Ridge, Crow Creek, New York, United States, Secretary of the Interior, South Dakota, American Indians, Dawes Act, Eastman Folder, Elaine Goodale Eastman, Charles Eastman, Ghost Dance, Santee Sioux, The Indian Today, American Indian Identity, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Baker Library, Indian Rights Association, Wounded Knee, White Ghost, Standing Rock, American Indian Magazine, Indian Boyhood, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Santee Normal New!
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- Indian Boyhood (Native American) by Charles A. Eastman on 10 pages
- Old Indian Days by Charles A. Eastman on 6 pages
- The Ghost Dance (Native American Series) by James Mooney on 5 pages
- Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains by A. Charles Eastman on 5 pages
- The Soul Of The Indian by Charles Eastman on 5 pages
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- New Directions in American Indian History (D'Arcy Mcnickle Center Bibliographies in American Indian History) by Colin G. Calloway on 4 pages
- Susan La Flesche Picotte, M.D.: Omaha Indian Leader and Reformer by Benson Tong in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees: A Narrative of Indian Captivity by Sarah F. Wakefield in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Mother Earth: An American Story by Sam D. Gill in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, and Reform by Lucy Maddox in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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