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...Eastman, a Sioux Indian, was born in Minnesota about 1858 and passed the first fifteen years of his life in the woods, enjoying the free, nomadic existence of his race. After that he studied for a short while at a missionary school and then entered college. He is a graduate of Dartmouth and of Boston University. During the last fifteen years he has led a life of varied interests, having acted as a physician, missionary, writer and speaker. For the greater part of the time he has held an appointment under the United States government...
...Charles A. Eastman of Amherst, Massachusetts, a full-blooded Sioux Indian, delivered a lecture in the Union last evening on "The Real Indian,"-speaking of his training, ideals, and philosophy of life. From his childhood, said Dr. Eastman, the Indian boy is taught to look up to the Great Mystery, to develop his body, to live a simple life, and to be daring and fearless, yet unselfish. The real Indian despised the great machinery of civilization, considering it a defacement of nature. He mourned equally for his friend and his enemy, and until he had been cheated by the English...
...Charles A. Eastman of Amherst, Massachusetts, a full-blooded Sioux Indian, will lecture this evening in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock on "The Real Indian." The lecture will be open to members of the Union only...
Born about 1858 in Minnesota, the home of the Sioux, Dr. Eastman spent the first fifteen years of his life with his native tribe, where he never heard a word of English, and was taught to hate and distrust the white men. Later he went to school and college. He attended Beloit and Knox Colleges and is a graduate of Dartmouth and of Boston University. For the last fifteen years he has been a physician, a missionary, and a writer, and is a speaker of wide experience. Among his books are "Indian Boyhood," and "Red Hunters and Animal People...
Alfred Dubois, fullback a Sioux, is 21 years old, 5 feet 8 inches tall, and weighs 176 pounds...