Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa) (1858-1939) was a mixed-blood Sioux who became one of the best-known Indians of his time. He earned a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth and a medical degree from Boston University. From his first appointment as a physician at Pine Ridge Agency; where he witnessed the events that culminated in the Wounded Knee massacre, he sought to bring understanding between Native and non-Native Americans. He wrote eleven books, some, such as Sister to the Sioux (also available as a Bison Book), in collaboration with Elaine Goodale Eastman. His From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography of an Indian, Indian Boyhood, Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains, Old Indian Days, and The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation are all available as Bison Books.
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"Charles Eastman, in collaboration with his wife, Elaine Goodale Eastman, has assembled in this collection a composite, condensed sampling of his tribe’s values, and presents them in a language that is at once direct and engaging. To say these allegories are ‘wise’ begs the question; they are the distilled conclusions of generations upon generations of Plains society and point to the essence of what it is to be a decent, thoughtful, respectable human being—a Sioux Tao told in prose a child of any culture, of any time, can comprehend."
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This book is very well written. If you like any of Aesop's Fables, you will probably like the individual tales. If you are interested in traditional Native American life, you will probably like the settings introducing and linking the tales. The best part is that Eastman grew up Souix and the authenticity shows.
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- Early Native American Writing: New Critical Essays (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Helen Jaskoski on page 126, page 131, and page 134
- Ohiyesa: Charles Eastman, Santee Sioux by Raymond Wilson on page 145, page 160, and Back Matter
- Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern (New Americanists) by Joel Pfister on page 113, and Back Matter
- Lakota Myth (Second Edition) by James R. Walker in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Echoes Of The Forest: American Indian Legends by William Edgar Brown in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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