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Indian Boyhood

Name: Indian Boyhood
Author: Charles Eastman
ISBN: 9781617203947

by Charles A. Eastman

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Overview

Indian Boyhood is the autobiographical work of Eastman's memories as a free Dakota Indian. 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, tending survivors of the Wounded Knee massacre, and spent the rest of his career helping Indian people come to terms with their changing world and the opposing values of the white culture.

Synopsis

The Memoirs of an Indian boyhood, is and autobiography by Charles Eastman. Eastman was a Native American physician, writer, national lecturer, and reformer. He was of Santee Sioux and Anglo-American ancestry. Active in politics and issues on American Indian rights, he worked to improve the lives of youths, and founded 32 Native American chapters of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). He also helped found the Boy Scouts of America. He is considered the first Native American author to write American history from the native point of view.

About the Author, Charles Eastman

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.