Indian Boyhood (Paperback)

"Indian Boyhood" (1902) was the literary debut of Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa), a Santee Sioux whose eleven books aimed at bringing whites and Indians closer together. The favorable reception of the autobiographical Indian Boyhood would lead him to write such classic works as "Old Indian Days" (1907), "Wig warn Evenings: Sioux Folk Tales Retold" (with Elaine Goodale Eastman, 1909), "The Soul of the Indian" (1911), "From the Deep Woods to Civilization" (1916), and "Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains" (1918), all reprinted as Bison Books.

At the beginning of "Indian Boyhood" Eastman recalls the 1862 Sioux Uprising in Minnesota that sent his family into exile in Canada. He describes his childhood there, which ended when his father, who had been presumed dead, appeared to take him back to the United States. An Indian boy's training, child-hood games, harvesting and feasts, legends told around a campfire--Eastman relates all aspects of the rich traditional life of the Santee Sioux, which had already passed away by the time this book was published.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1991
First published:	December 1991
Authors:	Charles A. Eastman
Introduction by:	David Reed Miller
Dimensions:	203 x 135 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	295
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-6719-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-8032-6719-3
Barcode:	9780803267190

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