The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-07
WE'D AN INDIAN AND rs HAPPY.
The Story or Dr. Charles A. Eastman's W1fo
IL Different From Many Others.


IL Different From Many Others.
CHApRoN. Neb.. Dec. s-Many Fasteners
have heard recently. for the first time, Of
DR.. Charles A. East man. the Sioux Indian
physician. because OF his book, sIndian
Boyhood.' Doubtless few OF thoss who
knew him a. college youth at Dartmouth
fifteen years age, or those who have exhibited
interest In him as an author, are aware
however, that his wife is white girl. a
daughter OF the Berkahire hills who volln-
tariiy threw away brilliant career In letters
not for love, because then she had not
met Eastman, but because abe believed
she was called to teach the Indian the way
to Industrial salvation.
Eastman Is -full-blood' Sioux. His
father belongs to the class known as .loafer
lnoians, re,I men who sit about the Wills ges
Gay after day, playing oaros from morning
until evening. His mother was blanket
Indian the kind that scof At tbs dress
Of the paleface woman, and cling to the
aboriginal garment Of Gaudy hue.
Their son received thorough Q lucation
In the East and the habits Of LIE and loyalty
chung to him when he came homo, . full
LEGGED doctor, little more than . decade
ago. He took W work among the sick
at once. He dressed like . white man,
and used his talents and influence to arouse
ambition for better things Tn the breasts
One Gay Eastman was called to visit
sick squaw In a far-od Indian village. At
| the door Of the tepee he was met by a beauti.
full young girl She was dressed, Indian
eyes were dark and her tresses raven.
but the creamy white and the oval Of her
face proclaimed her not Of that race.
She spoke a few words to him In Sioux
III for que tionins.. but when Eastman
reached the agency he asked who the eirl
was. lie was told that she was Elaine
Goodale. Only a few years before her
name had been in many mouths. She
had published poems which were prais Cd.
She had turned to the life Of the Indian
and was living a strange life in the tepees
Of the Sioux, dr led like them and eating
q the same food
visitor at tho tepse Of the sick fqr aw, and
presently laire Goodale wrote back to
Massachusetts, that she was about to we'd
an Indian. Warm protests cane from her
relatives. but in vain. They were mar
ried and their life has been idyllic. Soon
after the wedding the bride trrred to the
study OF medicine and now or hushLd
has no truer ally in his work. Ofttimes Ee
ia called forty miles to zee sick Sioux.
On these tedious trips his v lie IL his com-
near st. Paul. Mimi. and DR.. Eastman
has lorg boon a Government physician.
A CfMdron woman who recently visited
them said
y found Mrs. Eastman htting in a corey
parlor in front Of an open fireplace. She
Is woman noticeable anywhere for her
beauty Of face and form. In her srms
she held bsby, her own, but the child
had not inherited any Of tho attractiveness
Of its rother II was a veritable old squsw
In miniature.
1T wasa queer sight, this beautiful woman
hol7ing the hor,e!y papoose, with It's gilt
tering eyes, every move and every sX-
preston marking II AZ IN Indian. 1t
seemed a changeling from the tepees. but
the mother crooned to II rs mothers always
have done and the mother love was not
diromed
Elaine Goodale Fsstman's happy life
il one OF the few contrasts that are to be-
found to that of women like Cora Belle
Fellows. Eastman is a different Indian
from Chasks He is intelligent. active,
progressive. the finer type of the civilized
Sioux, and he is doing a good work IN rous-
ing the largard ambition Of tho younger
element, In appearance he is the typical
Indian, but he dresses better, j. nelly
educated and the best cha actoristics Of
the Indian are manifest in his life