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Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Content

Editor’s Preface

Foreword

Historical Prologue

Part i: Life in the Deep Woods

Introduction

The Young Babe Loses His Mother

The Indian Mother

Grandmother’s Teachings

Early Hardships

Flight to Canada

The Indian’s Wild Life

Loss of My Father

A Midsummer Feast

Indian Names

The Grandparents Teach the Young Children

Storytelling

A Pure Democracy

An Indian Boy’s Training

Games and Sports

The Boy Hunter

Wilderness Cooking

Intertribal Warfare

An Indian Girl’s Training

Insights into the Daily Life of Women

The Maiden’s Feast

Indian Courtship

Marriage and Family

The Fall Hunt

Wild Harvests

The Indian’s Viewpoint on Works of Art

Native Arts and Crafts

Indian Music

An Adventurous Journey

The Laughing Philosopher

First Impressions ofCivilization

The Way Opens

Part ii: Cultures in collision

My First School Days

On the White Man’s Trail

College Life in the West

College Life in the East

The How and the Why of the Indian Wars

From Nomadic Life to Reservation Life on the Plains

The Government’s Solution: Sacrifice the Buffalo

The Final Warfare on the Plains

The Calamity of Early Reservation Life

A Doctor Among the Indians

The “Big Issue”

Introduction to the “Ghost Dance Religion”

Elaine Goodale

The Ghost Dance War

Wounded Knee

War with the Politicians

Civilization as Preached and Practiced

A Tearful Family Reunion

Public Speaking

At the Nation’s Capital

The Soul of the White Man

Part iii: The Soul of the Indian

Foreword

The Great Mystery

The Vision Quest

Communion with the Natural World

The One Inevitable Duty

The Sun Dance

Indian Medicine

The Sweat Lodge and Ceremonial of the Pipe

Love of Possessions is a Weakness

The Indian Moral Code

The Attitude toward Death

Final Thoughts

Part iV: Eastman in Later Life

Late in Eastman’s Life He Practiced What He Preached

Part V: Other Indian Voices

Ishi: the last aboriginal Indian

Contemporary Indian Voices

Part Vi: Historical Timeline

Timeline of American Indian History: 1620-2009

The “paradox of patriotism” endures

Indian Reservations form part of a “cultural mosaic”

Appendix

Free Supplementary Study Materials

Eastman’s Bibliography

Biographical Notes of Other Indian Voices

Index