Indian Boyhood
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Indian Boyhood
Charles Alexander Eastman, native american physician, writer, national lecturer, and reformer (1858-1939)
This ebook presents «Indian Boyhood», from Charles Alexander Eastman. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.
Table of Contents
-01- About this book
-02- EARLIEST RECOLLECTIONS
-03- CHAPTER I. HADAKAH THE PITIFUL LAST
-04- CHAPTER II. EARLY HARDSHIPS
-05- CHAPTER III. MY INDIAN GRANDMOTHER
-06- CHAPTER IV. AN INDIAN SUGAR CAMP
-07- CHAPTER V. A MIDSUMMER FEAST
-08- AN INDIAN BOY'S TRAINING
-09- MY PLAYS AND PLAYMATES
-10- CHAPTER I. GAMES AND SPORTS
-11- CHAPTER II. MY PLAYMATES
-12- CHAPTER III. THE BOY HUNTER
-13- CHAPTER IV. HAKADAH'S FIRST OFFERING
-14- FAMILY TRADITIONS
-15- CHAPTER I. A VISIT TO SMOKY DAY
-16- EVENING IN THE LODGE
-17- CHAPTER I. EVENING IN THE LODGE
-18- CHAPTER II. ADVENTURES OF MY UNCLE
-19- THE END OF THE BEAR DANCE
-20- THE MAIDENS' FEAST
-21- MORE LEGENDS
-22- CHAPTER I. A LEGEND OF DEVIL'S LAKE
-23- CHAPTER II. MANITOSHAW'S HUNTING
-24- INDIAN LIFE AND ADVENTURE
-25- CHAPTER I.LIFE IN THE WOODS
-26- CHAPTER II. A WINTER CAMP
-27- CHAPTER III. WILD HARVESTS
-28- CHAPTER IV. AN ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY
-29- CHAPTER V. THE LAUGHING PHILOSOPHER
-30- FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF CIVILIZATION
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The language of this abridgement of Eastman's 1902 memoir may strike some readers as stilted, and Rasch's flat, stylized figures have a faltering, uncertain line. Readers should not be put off. Few records of childhood from the period survive, and this one is singular. Eastman remembers both famine and cruelty ("When I was six, my father and my two older brothers were taken prisoner by the United States Army"), but he maintains a tone of quiet resignation throughout. Details of his upbringing in the wilderness delight: "Every boy was trained to find new and strange things in the woods. If a bird had scratched the leaves off the ground, we stopped to speculate on the time it was done." Eastman's uncle trained him to go without food and to wake from a deep sleep ready to fight, but he never goes to war. Instead, his father returns, they move to the city, and the boy enters school. Teachers devoting time to Native American study and readers who yearn to know more about Native American life will find much to learn and much to mourn. Ages 4 8.
