The Soul Of The Indian, Charles Alexander Eastman
The Soul Of The Indian, Charles Alexander Eastman
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The Soul Of The Indian

Author: Charles Alexander Eastman

Narrator: Scott Peterson

Unabridged: 2 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/24/2005

Categories: Nonfiction, History

Synopsis

Charles Alexander Eastman (18581939), an educated and wellknown Sioux, saw both sides of the great divide between Indians and whites, and he wrote eleven books attempting to reconcile the two cultures. This book is his illumination of Indian spiritual beliefs and practices. A convert to Christianity, Eastman never lost his sense of the wholeness and beauty of the Indians relation to his existence and to the natural world. Part history, part reminiscence, it is told in very personal terms and coupled with seven folk tales.

About Charles Alexander Eastman

Charles Alexander Eastman (1858–1939) was born on the Santee Reservation in Minnesota. His grandparents raised him after his mother’s death and his father’s capture during the Minnesota Sioux uprising. At the age of fifteen, he was reunited with his father and embarked on a life in white man’s society. He became a doctor and spent the rest of his life helping Indian people cope with the changes to their world and trying to reconcile the opposing values and beliefs of white society and Sioux culture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer

I recommend this to the general reader as well as those deeply interested in indigenous history and culture. I appreciate the simplicity of the syntax,the occasional poetic expression and even a few quotable phrases. This book I read in under two hours.It is an easy overview of some captivating myth......more

Goodreads review by Vaishali

Should be required reading for we Americans, connecting us with reverence for Mother Nature and the Universe. Eastman (actual Native name: Ohíye S’a) illustrates the magic to which we are blind. If you choose out of the great fortune of experiencing this book, please read this excerpt encapsulating......more

Goodreads review by Teresa

Page wise, this should be a short read about customs and religion. So, (projecting my own mixed feelings about religion) I buckled down, suspended my own socialization and my own colonization (I am American, born in the States, but not white...many do not consider that American at all, but would reg......more

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