Quotes by Charles Eastman - Page 1

The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.
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Indian
Religious
Womb
Religious Man
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Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.
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Old Age
Life Age Old Age
Period
Happiest
Respects
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There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
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Temples
Among
Those
Were
Save
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Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.
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Religious
Real Sense
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The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.
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Hospitality
Institution
Limited
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The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.
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Unit
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But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!
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Mark
Trials
Be True
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The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind.
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Divided
Red
Spiritual
Parts
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Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.
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Conscious
Divinity
Erect
Sons
Stood
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No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.
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Deny
Indian
Polite
Acquainted
Home People Who
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He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.
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Holy
One Day
Setting
Apart
Sees
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The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
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Despised
Native
Native American
Poverty
Conquerors
Generally
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The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.
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Indian
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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.
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Eight
Turns
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Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
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Felt
Sensitive
Unseen
Touch
Commonly
Powers
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In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.
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Religion
Influence
Pure
Element
Supernatural
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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.
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Army
Indian
Organized
Neither
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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
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Friendship
Family
Blood
Character
Easy
Loyal
Veins
Own
Clan
Held
Test
Whose
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Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.
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Birth
Indian
Nicknames
Religious
Symbolic
Characteristic
Deed
Meaning
Playful
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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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Affection
Capable
Guests
Durable
Least
Our People
Presence
Strangers
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There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.
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Marriage
Ceremony
Connected
Holy
Mysterious
Relation
Marriage Man Woman
Among
Hand
Regarded
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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.
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Religion
Found
Inconsistency
Seeking
Spiritual
White
Conduct
Material
Professed
Spiritual Things
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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.
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Blood
Civilization
Position
Purity
Said
Secure
Woman
Morals
Standard
Test
Vested
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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.
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Credible
Deny
Indian
Logical
Hebrews
Miracles
Myths
None
Perhaps
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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.
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Awe
Character
Elements
Fire
Frost
Lightning
Majestic
Spiritual
Water
Wind
Forces
Intermediate
Powers
Regarded
Secondary
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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.
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Natural
Chief
Clan
Connection
Head
Patriarchal
Union
Several
Tribe
Voluntary
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Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
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Desire
Instinct
Mark
Mating
Trials
Love Man Woman
Free
Be True
Friend
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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.
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Duty
Function
Parent
Solemn
Supreme
Approaches
Believed
Claim
Degree
Permitted
Priestly
Protecting
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