Charles Eastman
Charles Eastman
Charles Alexander Eastmanwas a Santee Dakota physician educated at Boston University, writer, national lecturer, and reformer. In the early 20th century, he was "one of the most prolific authors and speakers on Sioux ethnohistory and American Indian affairs."...
NationalitySioux
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth18 September 1929
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The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.
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Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
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It is noteworthy that the first effect of contact with the whites was an increase of cruelty and barbarity, an intensifying of the dark shadows in the picture!
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In the life of the Indian there was only one inevitable duty, - the duty of prayer - the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal.
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Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
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Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.
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The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
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Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.
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The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.
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The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
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The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.
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Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.
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In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.