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From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography of an Indian
From Deep Woods To Civilization continues' Eastman's captivating autobiographical work, telling the story of his years during school and into his life as a doctor. One of the highest educated Indians of his time, through his social work and his writings he was one of the best-known Indians of the early 20th century.
Charles Eastman was born on the Santee Reservation in Min
...morePaperback, 248 pages
Published
May 28th 2001
by Digital Scanning
(first published 1916)
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Eastman was the main character in HBO's shitty original film Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a film that managed to tacitly blame the Wounded Knee Massacre on its victims.
Eastman wasn't so accommodating and equivocal, though he is thought to be by many. From the Deep Woods to Civilization represents a conflicted man whose politics would today be considered hopelessly naive. However, there is much of use in this book as both historical document and insightful, if not always agreeable...more
Eastman wasn't so accommodating and equivocal, though he is thought to be by many. From the Deep Woods to Civilization represents a conflicted man whose politics would today be considered hopelessly naive. However, there is much of use in this book as both historical document and insightful, if not always agreeable...more
I think every American should read this book in high school. It is fantastic and sheds light into a difficult period of our history. Eastman believed his father was hung at Fort Snelling after the Dakota Conflict. When his father returned a Christian farmer when Eastman was 15, he returned home to Minnesota with him. From there he attended boarding schools and colleges. Upon completing his education out east as a doctor, Eastman went to the Pine Ridge Reservation -- where he treated those massac...more
Eastman lived through the Sioux uprisings of the second half of the nineteenth century, had two uncles who fought at the Little Bighorn, converted to Christianity, went to Dartmouth, was doctor to the survivors of the Wounded Kneee Massacre, became to be a lobbyist for American Indians in DC and worked tirelessly for peace, real civilization (he criticized the hypocrisy of the "practice " of civilization he witnessed in the United States). He wrote in a lucid, insightful and deliberat...more
This book inspired me to study Administrative Law more diligently today.
A great account of a Native American man living between his original and white cultures. Witness to Wounded Knee. A first rate book for teaching.
Some great stuff at the end critiquing Christianity and America.
Just starting this, for my lit class.
I really liked this book. If you have seen "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee," you should read this book written by the main character in that film, Charles Eastman. It's his autobiography.
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(1858-1939) Charles Alexander Eastman is unique among Indian writers, whether storytellers or oral historians. He was raised traditionally, as a Woodland Sioux, by his grandmother, from 1858 - 1874, until he was 15. He thus gained a thorough first-hand knowledge of the lifeways, language, culture, and oral history.
His father (thought to have been hanged at Mankato, Minnesota) reappear...more
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