![]() ![]() Ohiyesa’s original prose was majestic and lyrical, with rich cultural details brought vividly to life over the course of a novel-length work. Army of Ohiyesa’s father and brothers, the incursion of the railroads. ![]() ![]() Greatly condensed and simplified for younger readers, this version includes memories of daily life-childhood games, traditional skills and lore learned from elders, times of feast and famine-as well as foreboding signs of changes to come, including expulsion from their land at gunpoint, the capture by the U.S. Ohiyesa (1858-1939), also known as Charles Alexander Eastman, wrote 11 books, the first of which was the 1902 account of his youth until age 15, Indian Boyhood. This rare firsthand memoir of late-19th-century Santee Dakota life offers a valuable counterpoint to inaccurate and biased accounts of Native American civilizations told by outsiders. ![]()
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