INDIAN BOYHOOD [SOLD]

INDIAN BOYHOOD by Ohiyesa (Charles A. Eastman) 1858-1939 [Santee Sioux]

Illustrated by E. L. Blumenschein

First Edition published by Little, Brown, and Company, 1902

This First Edition by The Rio Grande Press, Inc. published in 1976

Introduction to this edition by Jamake Highwater (Blackfeet/Cherokee)

Hardcover, first edition, 289 pages. Excellent condition

Author’s Statement

               “The North American Indian was the highest type of pagan and uncivilized man.  He possessed not only a superb physique but a remarkable mind.  But the Indian no longer exists as a natural and free man.  Those remnants which now dwell upon the reservation present only a sort of tableau—a fictitious copy of the past.

               “The following chapters are the imperfect record of my boyish impressions and experiences up to the age of fifteen years.  I have put together these fragmentary recollections of my thrilling wild life expressly for the little son who came too late to behold for himself the drama of savage existence.  I dedicate this little book, with love, to Ohiyesa the second, my son.”

            - Charles A. Eastman [Ohiyesa]

Summary: A full-blooded Santee Sioux Indian describes his childhood experiences and training as a warrior in the late nineteenth century until he was taken to live in the white man’s world at age fifteen.

CONTENTS

EARLIEST RECOLLECTIONS

               Hakadah, “The Pitiful Last”

               Early Hardships

               My Indian Grandmother

               An Indian Sugar Camp

               A Midsummer Feast

AN INDIAN BOY’S TRAINING

MY PLAYS AND PLAYMATES

               Games and Sports

               My Playmates

               The Boy Hunter

HAKADAH’S FIRST OFFERING

FAMILY TRADITIONS

               A Visit to Smoky Day

               The Stone Boy

EVENING IN THE LODGE

               Evening in the Lodge

               Adventures of My Uncle

THE END OF THE BEAR DANCE

THE MAIDENS’ FEAST

MORE LEGENDS

               A Legend of Devil’s Lake

               Manitosbaw’s Hunting

INDIAN LIFE AND ADVENTURE

               Life in the Woods

               A Winer Camp

               Wild Harvests

               A Meeting on the Plains

               An Adventurous Journey

THE LAUGHING PHILOSPHER

FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF CIVILIZATION