{"title":"Charles A. Eastman","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"charles-eastman-premium-collection-indian-boyhood-indian-heroes-and-great-chieftains-the-soul-of-the-indian-from-the-deep-woods-to-civilization-paperback","title":"CHARLES EASTMAN Premium Collection: Indian Boyhood, Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains, The Soul of the Indian \u0026 From the Deep Woods to Civilization - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939) was a physician writer, national lecturer, and reformer. Eastman was of Santee Dakota, English and French ancestry. After working as a physician on reservations in South Dakota, he became increasingly active in politics and issues on Native American rights, he worked to improve the lives of youths, and founded thirty-two Native American chapters of the Young Men's Christian Association. He also helped found the Boy Scouts of America. He is considered the first Native American author to write American history from the Native American point of view. Contents: Indian Boyhood Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains The Soul of the Indian From the Deep Woods to Civilization\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367721500895,"sku":"9788027334261","price":17.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/eF92jriEPD9788027334261.webp?v=1789113375"},{"product_id":"indian-boyhood-a-native-american-childhood-memoir-by-ohiyesa-charles-a-eastman-hardcover","title":"Indian Boyhood: A Native American Childhood Memoir by Ohiyesa, Charles A. Eastman - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndian Boyhood\u003c\/em\u003e is Charles A. Eastman's autobiographical account of his childhood among the Santee Dakota, written by one of the most important Native American authors of the early twentieth century.\u003c\/strong\u003e Born Ohiyesa, Eastman recounts the world of his early years through family, play, training, hunting, story, ceremony, discipline, kinship, and the formation of character. The book is not merely a childhood memoir; it is also a record of Dakota life, values, education, and community before Eastman's later education in Euro-American schools and his public career as a physician, reformer, and writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1902, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndian Boyhood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e remains a significant work of Native American autobiography, classic children's nonfiction, and American life writing. Eastman writes with clarity and restraint, presenting childhood as a moral and cultural education shaped by elders, nature, responsibility, courage, and communal obligation. For readers interested in Native American history, Dakota and Sioux culture, American autobiography, Indigenous life writing, and classic juvenile nonfiction, this book offers an important first-person account from an author whose work helped bring Native perspectives into American literary and historical consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51370462871775,"sku":"9781515429951","price":34.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/7RuOaB7RmP9781515429951.webp?v=1789161386"},{"product_id":"wigwam-evenings-sioux-tales-retold-paperback","title":"Wigwam Evenings: Sioux Tales Retold - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles 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 \u003ci\u003eSister to the Sioux\u003c\/i\u003e (also available as a Bison Book), in collaboration with Elaine Goodale Eastman. His \u003ci\u003eFrom the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography of an Indian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIndian Boyhood\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIndian Heroes and\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGreat Chieftains\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOld Indian Days\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation\u003c\/i\u003e are all available as Bison Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Sioux Toa told in prose a child of any culture, of any time, can comprehend..And no matter how blurred the boundary between past and present, between unpredictable ghost and pragmatic logic, this rich collection from another time and place offers a contemporary message of great ultimate solace.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51381301117151,"sku":"9780803267176","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/yXfvAQ73Iu9780803267176.webp?v=1789282892"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/charles-a-eastman.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}