Wigwam Evenings - Sioux Tales Retold (Paperback)

"Charles Eastman, in collaboration with his wife, Elaine Goodale Eastman, has assembled in this collection a composite, condensed sampling of his tribe's values, and presents them in a language that is at once direct and engaging. To say these allegories are 'wise' begs the question; they are the distilled conclusions of generations upon generations of Plains society and point to the essence of what it is to be a decent, thoughtful, respectable human being-a Sioux Tao told in prose a child of any culture, of any time, can comprehend." Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa) (1858-1939) was a mixed-blood Sioux who became one of the best-known Indians of his time. He earned a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth and a medical degree from Boston University. From his first appointment as a physician at Pine Ridge Agency; where he witnessed the events that culminated in the Wounded Knee massacre, he sought to bring understanding between Native and non-Native Americans. He wrote eleven books, some, such as Sister to the Sioux (also available as a Bison Book), in collaboration with Elaine Goodale Eastman. His From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography of an Indian, Indian Boyhood, Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains, Old Indian Days, and The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation are all available as Bison Books.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1990
First published:	August 1990
Authors:	Charles A. Eastman • Elaine Goodale Eastman
Introduction by:	Michael Dorris • Louise Erdrich
Dimensions:	203 x 135 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	253
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-6717-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples
LSN:	0-8032-6717-7
Barcode:	9780803267176

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