INDIAN BOYHOOD [SOLD]
- Subject: Native American: General
- Item # C3713P
- Date Published: First Edition published by Little, Brown, and Company, 1902. This First Edition by The Rio Grande Press, 1976
- Size: Hardcover, first edition, 289 pages. 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
- Subject: Native American: General
- Item # C3713P
- Date Published: First Edition published by Little, Brown, and Company, 1902. This First Edition by The Rio Grande Press, 1976
- Size: Hardcover, first edition, 289 pages. SOLD
Publisher:
- The Rio Grande Press [NO LONGER IN BUSINESS]
- Glorieta, NM
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