num_pages: 256
description: Charles Eastman, or "Ohiyesa"  in Santee, came of age during a period of increasing tension and violence between  Native and "new" Americans. Raised to become a hunter-warrior, he  was nevertheless persuaded by his Christianized father to enter the alien world  of white society. A remarkably bright student, Eastman graduated from Dartmouth  College and the Boston University School of Medicine. Later on he served as  government physician at the Pine Ridge Agency (and tended casualties at Wounded  Knee), as Indian Inspector for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and as Indian secretary  for the YMCA, and helped found the Boy Scouts of America.Concurrently, however, he also worked  on special congressional legislation to settle Sioux claims and was a charter  member and later president of the Society of American Indians. It was his writing,  though, which most clearly established Eastman's determination to hold on to  his roots. In works such as Indian Boyhood, The Soul of the Indian , and  Indian Heroes and Chieftains he reconfirmed his native heritage and tried  to make white society aware of the Indians' contribution to American civilization. 
language: English
title: Ohiyesa: Charles Eastman, Santee Sioux
titlecomplete: Ohiyesa: Charles Eastman, Santee Sioux
ratings_count: 14
publisher: University of Illinois Press