All Charles Eastman Quotes
The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.
Charles Eastman
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Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.
Charles Eastman
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Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.
Charles Eastman
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But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!
Charles Eastman
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The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.
Charles Eastman
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The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.
Charles Eastman
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The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
Charles Eastman
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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
Charles Eastman
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At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training.
Charles Eastman
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In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.
Charles Eastman
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The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
Charles Eastman
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The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.
Charles Eastman
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The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.
Charles Eastman
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It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.
Charles Eastman
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There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
Charles Eastman
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