Author: Charles Alexander Eastman

Charles Alexander Eastman is unique among Indian writers, whether storytellers or historians. He was raised traditionally as a Plains Sioux by his grandmother from 1858 to 1874, until he was 15 years old. Thus, he acquired a complete first-hand knowledge of the ways of life, language, culture and history of the Native Americans. In The Soul of the Indian, the author brings to life the spirituality and morality of Native Americans, showing us how precious and beautiful their existence was before contact with European missionaries and conquerors. This work is a rare expression of native wisdom, without the filters imposed by anthropologists and historians. Rather than a scientific treatise, Eastman has written a book as faithful as possible to his childhood teachings and ancestral ideals, but from a human, not an ethnological point of view. His expositions of ceremonial and symbolic forms of worship, the unwritten scriptures, and the spirit world emphasize the universal quality and appeal of the Native American essence. Not to be missed! THE ANCIENT WISDOM OF A FASCINATING PEOPLE A UNIQUE TESTIMONY TO LIFE IN FREEDOM