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Charles Eastman Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa)

physician · writer · Great Plains, North America · United States · 1858–1939

Born a Dakota Sioux, he grew up as a hunter until fifteen and later became a physician. His Dakota name was Ohiyesa. He wrote in English about his childhood and the life of his people.

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1902

WHAT boy would not be an Indian for a while when he thinks of the freest life in the world? This life was mine.

Indian Boyhood, the opening

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