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"Has a many-sided appeal …. This stimulating book is one of the few that really deserve the over-worked term, a human document." — Publishers Weekly.
In the first of his memoirs, the popular Indian Boyhood, Charles Alexander Eastman recounted his traditional upbringing among the Santee Sioux. From the Deep Woods…
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From the Deep Woods is a book about the author’s spiritual and intellectual journey through his life in the late 19th and early 20th century. Charles Eastmen was a Native American who received a college education on the east coast and eventually became a doctor working on reservations in the Midwest.
I was fascinated by this book, but it also made me a little sad. Eastman’s commentary on the American society of his time was incredibly wise and insightful. However, much of Eastman’s critiques and observations would be just as poignant and just as relevant today as when this book…
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