The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-09
YOUNG DIR. oHIYESA.
Tho Bright Sioux Indian who Was Re-
Gently Graduated In Boston.


Gently Graduated In Boston.
From ne Boston Transcript
Yesterday afternoon In fremont Temple Q
slender but sinewy young man about two
SaG ppSSr SIX w tG baek I
pompadour style from low Wide iorehead.
lorfipg black eyes set lar aphFT rather b high
wildly at times through the thin, brown skin,
stepped modeslly forward and delivered, with
u slight hut pleasing accent an interesting
GRAFTON on Tho Comparative History OF the
Art o. Healing" This young man Is mennp nir
vorsity OF Boston, and an altogether pre-
possessing and remarkably Intelligent person.
Dramatically aud cruelty wiongod since the
white man first set foot upon this continent.
class, is n Santeo Sioux, with a future whose
IMPORTANCE to his tribe cannot mt this moment
be adequately estimated. =, alta, md a
brave, though peacefully disposed, man; HIS
name in the Dakota, tongue was ,Tawakannh.
was half breed. OF so much personal beauty
that she was known in tho tribe as Makantans
tie THIRD. Was BON ito {" 'TGwakanhdota, and
Maknntqnkawn the mother dying in giving
instinct the boy was named Ohiyesa-the
" Winner" or Condueror;" lie, was, born on
tho big Sioux reservation in Redwood county.
The summer Of 1869 will meyer DO forgotten
by the Sioux or the people OF Minnesota Lily
ing UP strictly to the usual course of its deal.
ings with the !nuidns. the Government az
Washington had tnled to keen faith with tho
Sioux and pay certain promised annuities due
them on lands ceded the United States. Game
becoming exhausted on tho reservation the
Finally. becoming desperate with hunger, and
the. Government still turning deaf ear to
stfoili3g Band ID OF Sioux under the chief Little
Crow began u war upon the whites that ended
dron had been, shot and scalped. hundreds of
thousands OF dollars expended, and the prog
ress OF tho State of Minnesota :retarded by Q
dozen wears,
1t was Just a few months before this disas-
TO be- called, was born. His father who had
not taken part with Little Crow in the initial
outpreak;, was forced at length to take IN arms
with many women and children. over the bor-
der into British Columbia Alter the final sup.
Of the leaders, of the revolt. Eastman's father
was sentenced TO four, years Imprisonment at
tho war. Immediately upon his release from
prison the old warrior went to Nebraska.
WOOD WOOD for the Missouri liver steamboats,. The
life on the reservation was more than he could
e hqd neST F What
is now South Dakota and took up home
stead under the United states laws.
Little Eastman was sent for in 1881 to Join
school, but IN his own words. 80 couldn't stay
in tho scho9lhouse-l JHst couldn't, It seemed
air and plenty of it."
just here, as curious illustration Of the
force OF hereditary tendencies, 1t may be men,
toned that through his entire school and COL
Of confinement and. has had many a, hard
struggle with himself to maintain that degree
e OF has rSd the 1n Shn h ss sur FAST
three years he found it necessary TO run five
miles day in order to keep up his health and
l'pham's Corner, to Newton ard in this en-.
the Indian name his father had given him. A
half dozen medals taken in various running
witnesses to the Indians love Of open-air ex-
ercse.
Wis. to learn English. He remained there
three years. and then went to Knox College at
S he hai not bean aGe to sn ac9us Enssh
as rapidly Hs the triends who had nov begun
for Inc hG 91 al tha
time Boosting Of no grammar. not even an ale
phabet there was,4s Eastman expresses 4. mo
build upon. and what ordinarily would require
only months t9 learn consumed IN this way
the fall Of that year, encouraged and supported
by substantial friends. Eastman went TO Merri-
entering Dartmouth, at which college he ma
circulated in 1883, taking the Latin Scientin9
at once entered Boston University. and to day.
after SnrT eas Of e99ge york goes forth
Dn ife wf hrs eoeEs s Eastman has read
law with IN avIdity that can be ascribed only
h a to to s
is three-ioId, He wishes to place the sanitary
teach them their exact status among the peo-
pies OF the country, and to act as INTERPRETER
for them In their future dealings with the Gov
ernment.
From the boston Record
Eastman came In the campus" in the au-
tumn OF S3. and at once proved u star attrac-
tion for the freshman class of 81. Football
ana cane PUSHES were then in vogue at Hanoi
nna ae1 na Sod at onoS
sell and he was always in the, hottest of the
efy 9 s61bs Ipd
hearty respect for him in these little scrim-
images n,aa} and always acted as i they were
great final cane, rush came off and the
the waist, and bodies well oiled. awaiting the
onslaught oiL OF the s2phomores Eastman was In
me II front RANK INK, WIN shoulders cleaning and
Eastman had his full reGaia of Sioux chief
Of college, and sometimes he would invite the
bucksk ms TO the great admiration Of the hum
Bile freshmen who were allowed to attend tho
rise, and he would get enthusiastic in telling
OF his many thrilling adventures. Finally the
whoop and then the, meeting would adjourn.
The young Indian had all the sef-possession
his S sPd he could ParGr
had no terrors for the child OF the plains.
Though not ladies' mar, he could face any
barrassment When Matthew Arnold was at
Hanover he expressed desire TO meet East
full. blUoded sioux in college Tho great critic
eyidenty expected TO something Of the
sins. When the two came together the calm
dignity OF the student SO overcame the learned
Lngllshman that no siammered and b!ushed
nSH NJ neoPio and be aSrres With hin him the i
good WISHES OF many friends In the East.
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