Indian Boyhood

by Charles Alexander Eastman

Overview

WHAT boy would not be an Indian for a while when he thinks of the freest life in the world? This life was mine. Every day there was a real hunt. There was real game. Occasionally there was a medicine dance away off in the woods where no one could disturb us, in which the boys impersonated their elders, Brave Bull, Standing Elk, High Hawk, Medicine Bear, and the rest. They painted and imitated their fathers and grandfathers to the minutest detail, and accurately too, because they had seen the real thing all their lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781515079026
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	07/14/2015
Pages:	88
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.18(d)

About the Author

David Reed Miller, a professor in the Department of Indian Studies at Saskatchewan Indian Federated College, has written an introduction for this Bison Book edition.

Table of Contents

I	Earliest Recollections
I	Hakadah, "The Pitiful Last"	3
II	Early Hardships	11
III	My Indian Grandmother	21
IV	An Indian Sugar Camp	29
V	A Midsummer Feast	36
II	An Indian Boy's Training
III	My Plays And Playmates
I	Games and Sports	63
II	My Playmates	75
III	The Boy Hunter	86
IV	Hakadah's First Offering
V	Family Traditions
I	A Visit to Smoky Day	115
II	The Stone Boy	126
VI	Evening In The Lodge
I	Evening in the Lodge	141
II	Adventures of My Uncle	153
VII	The End Of The Bear Dance
VIII	The Maidens' Feast
IX	More Legends
I	A Legend of Devil's Lake	191
II	Manitoshaw's Hunting	200
X	Indian Life And Adventure
I	Life in the Woods	213
II	A Winter Camp	225
III	Wild Harvests	233
IV	A Meeting on the Plains	245
V	An Adventurous Journey	252
XI	The Laughing Philosopher
XII	First Impressions Of Civilization