Charles Eastman
Charles Eastman
Charles Alexander Eastmanwas a Santee Dakota physician educated at Boston University, writer, national lecturer, and reformer. In the early 20th century, he was "one of the most prolific authors and speakers on Sioux ethnohistory and American Indian affairs."...
NationalitySioux
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth18 September 1929
friendship held test
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
convinced enemy honor met royal trust
Yet, if an enemy should honor us with a call, his trust will not be misplaced, and he will go away convinced that he has met with a royal host!
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That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.
morals position purity standard women
It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.
divided man mind quotes
The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind.
man
The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.
family unit
The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.
acquainted deny home
No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.
element pure religion
In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.
act life religious
Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.
age eight turns
At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training.
indian last man religion
The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.
indian national neither nor organized religion war
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.