Charles Eastman Quotes

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.
Charles Eastman

Religion, Men, Spiritual

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
Charles Eastman

Nature, Among, Save

The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.
Charles Eastman

Family, Nothing, Union

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
Charles Eastman

Friendship, Character, Test

But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!
Charles Eastman

True, Friend, Trials

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.
Charles Eastman

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.
Charles Eastman

Nature, Character, Spiritual

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
Charles Eastman

Poverty, American, Simplicity

The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind.
Charles Eastman

Spiritual, Mind, Two

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.
Charles Eastman

Religion, Him, Understand

Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.
Charles Eastman

God, Men, Among

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

Age, Father, Him

Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.
Charles Eastman

Life, Real, Sense

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.
Charles Eastman

Religion, Reason, Influence

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.
Charles Eastman

Spirit, Religious, Meaning

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.
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Women, Woman, Said

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.
Charles Eastman

Home, Deny, Polite

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.
Charles Eastman

Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers.
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Time, Strong, Feeling

That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.
Charles Eastman

Power, Alone, Creative

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
Charles Eastman

Religion, War, American

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.
Charles Eastman

Family, Government, Social

The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.
Charles Eastman

The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.
Charles Eastman

Mother, Religious, Indian

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

Hero, Old, American

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Biography

Nationality: Sioux

Type: Author

Born: February 19, 1858

Died: January 8, 1939

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