he boy
named himself Charles Alexander.

After two years at Beloit, young Eastman went on to Knox College, Ill.;
then east to Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire, and to Dartmouth
College, where Indians had found a special welcome since colonial days.
He was graduated from Dartmouth in 1887, and went immediately to Boston
University, where he took the medical course, and was graduated in 1890
as orator of his class. The entire time spent in primary, preparatory,
college, and professional education, including the mastery of the
English language, was seventeen years, or about two years less than is
required by the average white youth.

Doctor Eastman went directly to the large Pine Ridge reservation in
South Dakota as Government physician; and during the "Ghost dance"
troubles of 1890-91 he was in charge of the wounded Indian prisoners in
their emergency hospital. In 1891 he married Miss Elaine Goodale of
Berkshire County, Mass.; and in 1893 went to St. Paul, Minn., with his
wife and child. While engaged there in the practice of medicine he was
approached by a representative of the International Committee of the
Y. M. C. A., and served for three years as their field secretary in the
United States and Canada.

In 1897 Dr. Eastman went to Washington as attorney for his tribe, to
push their interests at the national capital, and from 1899 to 1902 he
served again as a Government physician to the Sioux. Beginning in 1903,
he spent about seven years giving permanent family names to the Sioux,
and thus helping to establish the legal descent of their property, under
the direction of the Indian Bureau.

His first book, "Indian Boyhood," was published in 1902. It is the story
of his own early life in the wilds of Canada, and was the outgrowth of
several sketches which appeared in _St. Nicholas_ a few years earlier.
Since that time he has written "Red Hunters and the Animal People"
(1904), "Old Indian Days" (1906), "Wigwam Evenings" (1909), "The Soul of
the Indian" (1911), and "Indian Scout Talks" (1914). All have been
successful, and some have been brought out in school editions, and
translated into French, German, Danish, and Bohemian. He has also
contributed numerous articles to magazines, reviews, and encyclopedias.

In connection with his writings he has been in steady demand as a
lecturer and public speaker for the past twelve years, and has recently
devoted his entire time to literary work and lecturing, with the purp