Indian Boyhood

At his birth, Sioux children must plunge into water or roll in snow to prove their hardihood. The youngest of five, the baby is named Hakadah: “the pitiful last.”

In this memoir, Charles A. Eastman recalls his childhood among the Dakota Sioux, where the forest is both playground and classroom. Motherless from infancy, Hakadah is raised by his devoted grandmother Uncheedah, who carries him in an oak cradle beneath the trees and teaches him to know birds by their calls. But she also teaches him to listen for danger: an owl’s hoot may be more than a night song. What will the boy discover in the wilderness—and what kind of person will its lessons make him?

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