{"product_id":"2940013842571","title":"Charles A. Eastman","description":"This book contain collection of 33 Short Stories\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Great Mystery\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Family Altar\u003cbr\u003e 3. Ceremonial and Symbolic Worship\u003cbr\u003e 4. Barbarism and the Moral Code\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Unwritten Scriptures\u003cbr\u003e 6. On the Border-land of Spirits\u003cbr\u003e 7. Earliest Recollections\u003cbr\u003e 8. An Indian Boy's Training\u003cbr\u003e 9. My Plays and Playmates\u003cbr\u003e 10. Hakadah's First Offering\u003cbr\u003e 11. Family Traditions\u003cbr\u003e 12. Evening in the Lodge\u003cbr\u003e 13. The End of the Bear Dance\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Maiden's Feast\u003cbr\u003e 15. More Legends\u003cbr\u003e 16. Indian Life and Adventure\u003cbr\u003e 17. The Laughing Philospher\u003cbr\u003e 18. First Impressions of Civilization\u003cbr\u003e 19. Red Cloud\u003cbr\u003e 20. Spotted Tail\u003cbr\u003e 21. Little Crow\u003cbr\u003e 22. Tamahay\u003cbr\u003e 23. Gall\u003cbr\u003e 24. Crazy Horse\u003cbr\u003e 25. Sitting Bull\u003cbr\u003e 26. Rain-in-the-Face\u003cbr\u003e 27. Two Strike\u003cbr\u003e 28. American Horse\u003cbr\u003e 29. Dull Knife\u003cbr\u003e 30. Roman Nose\u003cbr\u003e 31. Chief Joseph\u003cbr\u003e 32. Little Wolf\u003cbr\u003e 33. Hole-in-the-Day\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharles A. Eastman was a Native American physician, writer, national lecturer, and reformer. He was of Santee Sioux and Anglo-American ancestry. Active in politics and issues on American Indian rights, he worked to improve the lives of youths, and founded 32 Native American chapters of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). He also helped found the Boy Scouts of America. He is considered the first Native American author to write American history from the native point of view.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEastman was named Hakadah at his birth, the translations from Dakota to English being \"pitiful last\". Eastman was so named because his mother died following his birth. He was the last of five children of Wakantakawin, a mixed-race woman also known as Mary Nancy Eastman. Eastman's father, a Santee Sioux named Wak-anhdi Ota (Many Lightnings), lived on a Dakota (Santee Sioux) reservation near Redwood Falls, Minnesota.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFifteen years later Ohíyesa was reunited with his father and oldest brother John in South Dakota. The father had by then converted to Christianity, after which he took the surname Eastman and called himself Jacob. John also converted and took the surname Eastman. The Eastman family established a homestead in Dakota Territory. When Ohiyesa accepted Christianity, he took the name Charles Alexander Eastman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharles Eastman worked as agency physician for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Indian Health Service on the Pine Ridge Reservation and later at the Crow Creek Reservation, both in South Dakota. He cared for Indians after the Wounded Knee massacre. He later established a private medical practice after being forced out of his position, but was not able to make it succeed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs they were struggling financially, his European-American wife Elaine Goodale Eastman encouraged him to write some of the stories of his childhood. At her suggestion (and with her editing help), he published the first two in 1893 and 1894 in St. Nicholas Magazine. It had earlier published poetry of hers. These stories were collected in his first book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1902 Eastman published a memoir, Indian Boyhood, recounting his first fifteen years of life among the Sioux during the later years of the nineteenth century. In the following two decades, he wrote ten more books, most concerned with his Native American culture. Ruth Ann Alexander, a scholar of his wife Elaine Goodale Eastman, noted that she worked more intensively on Eastman's stories about Indian life than she was given credit .This was a way to share his life and use her literary talents; he published nothing after they separated. Carol Lea Clark viewed their collaboration this way: \"together they produced works of a public popularity that neither could produce separately.\"","brand":"Publish This, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070280384752,"sku":"2940013842571","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013842571_p0.jpg?v=1763600167","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013842571","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}