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Title: Indian Boyhood

Author: [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman

Release Date: July 5, 2008 [EBook #337]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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INDIAN BOYHOOD

By [Ohiyesa] Charles A. Eastman

Contents

I
EARLIEST RECOLLECTIONS
I: Hakadah, "The Pitiful Last"
II: Early Hardships
III: My Indian Grandmother
IV: In Indian Sugar Camp
V: A Midsummer Feast

II
AN INDIAN BOY'S TRAINING

III
MY PLAYS AND PLAYMATES
I: Games and Sports
II: My Playmates
III: The Boy Hunter

IV
HAKADAH'S FIRST OFFERING

V
FAMILY TRADITIONS
I: A Visit to Smoky Day
II: The Stone Boy

VI
EVENING IN THE LODGE
I: Evening in the Lodge
II: Adventures of My Uncle

VII
THE END OF THE BEAR DANCE

VIII
THE MAIDENS' FEAST

IX
MORE LEGENDS
I: A Legend of Devil's Lake
II: Manitoshaw's Hunting

X
INDIAN LIFE AND ADVENTURE
I: Life in the Woods
II: A Winter Camp
III: Wild Harvests
IV: A Meeting on the Plains
V: An Adventurous Journey

XI
THE LAUGHING PHILOSOPHER

XII
FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF CIVILIZATION

I. EARLIEST RECOLLECTIONS

I. Hadakah, "The Pitiful Last"

WHAT boy would not be an Indian for a while when he thinks of the freest
life in the world? This life was mine. Every day there was a real hunt.
There was real game. Occasionally there was a medicine dance away off in
the woods where no one could disturb us, in which the boys impersonated
their elders, Brave Bull, Standing Elk, High Hawk, Medicine Bear, and
the rest. They painted and imitated their fathers and grandfathers to
the minutest detail, and accurately too, because they had seen the real
thing all their lives.

We were not only good mimics but we were close students of nature. We
studied the habits of animals just as you study your books. We watched
the men of our people and rep