Nonfiction · 1902
Indian Boyhood
Charles Eastman, born Hakadah and raised among the Santee Dakota after his mother's death, recounts his childhood training in hunting, survival and tribal custom on the Great Plains, before his father's return brought him instead into a mission school and, eventually, a medical degree from Boston University.
Eastman, who as a young reservation doctor treated the wounded after the Wounded Knee massacre, published Indian Boyhood in 1902, one of the first autobiographical accounts of Native childhood written by a Native author for a general American readership.
Bibliomancer restores the 1902 text exactly as Eastman wrote it.
Contents
- I — Hadakah, “The Pitiful Last”
- II — Early Hardships
- III — My Indian Grandmother
- IV — An Indian Sugar Camp
- V — A Midsummer Feast
- II — An Indian Boy’s Training
- I — Games and Sports
- II — My Playmates
- III: The Boy Hunter
- IV — Hakadah’s First Offering
- I: A Visit to Smoky Day
- II — The Stone Boy
- VI — Evening in the Lodge
- II — Adventures of My Uncle
- VII — The End of the Bear Dance
- VIII — The Maidens’ Feast
- I: A Legend of Devil’s Lake
- II — Manitoshaw’s Hunting
- I: Life in the Woods
- II — A Winter Camp
- III — Wild Harvests
- IV — A Meeting on the Plains
- V — An Adventurous Journey
- XI — The Laughing Philosopher
- XII — First Impressions of Civilization
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