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.
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From the Deep Woods to Civilization is the sequel to Indian Boyhood. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) gives his account of what it was like to transition from the ways of his Inidan life to that of the white man. His father, long thought dead, had converted to C... SEE MORE