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<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h2>THE INDIAN TO-DAY</h2> <div class="minispace"> </div> <div class="microspace"> </div> <h2 class="chapter">THE AMERICAN BOOKS</h2> <h3>A LIBRARY OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP</h3> <div class="center">"The American Books" are designed as a series of authoritative manuals, discussing problems of interest in America to-day.</div> <div class="microspace"> </div> <div class="nanospace"> </div> <h3>THE AMERICAN BOOKS</h3> <div class="microspace"> </div> <div class="nanospace"> </div> <div class='center'> <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="book list" width="60%"> <tr><td align='left'>THE AMERICAN COLLEGE</td><td align='right'>BY ISAAC SHARPLESS</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE INDIAN TO-DAY</td><td align='right'>BY CHARLES A. EASTMAN</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>COST OF LIVING</td><td align='right'>BY FABIAN FRANKLIN</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE AMERICAN NAVY</td><td align='right'>BY REAR-ADMIRAL FRENCH</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right'>E. CHADWICK, U.S.N.</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>MUNICIPAL FREEDOM</td><td align='right'>BY OSWALD RYAN</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>AMERICAN LITERATURE</td><td align='right'>BY LEON KELLNER</td></tr> <tr><td align='left' class="stext"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">(TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY JULIA FRANKLIN)</span></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>SOCIALISM IN AMERICA</td><td align='right'>BY JOHN MACY</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>AMERICAN IDEALS</td><td align='right'>BY CLAYTON S. COOPER</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE UNIVERSITY MOVEMENT</td><td align='right'>BY IRA REMSEN</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE AMERICAN SCHOOL</td><td align='right'>BY WALTER S. HINCHMAN</td></tr> </table></div> <div class="minispace"> </div> <div class="center">(<i>For more extended notice of the series, see the last pages of this book.</i>)</div> <div class="minispace"> </div> <hr style="width: 13%; margin-bottom: 1em;" /> <h3 class="chapter2"><i>The American Books</i></h3> <hr style="width: 3%; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 2em;" /> <h1>The Indian To-day</h1> <h2>The Past and Future of<br/> the First American</h2> <div class="minispace"> </div> <h3>BY</h3> <h2>CHARLES A. EASTMAN (<small>OHIYESA</small>)</h2> <h4><i>Author of<br/> "Old Indian Days," "Indian Boyhood," etc.</i></h4> <div class="minispace"> </div> <div class="image"><ANTIMG src="images/ititle.png" width-obs="132" height-obs="135" alt="" title="" /></div> <div class="minispace"> </div> <div class="minispace"> </div> <h3><small>GARDEN CITY                NEW YORK</small><br/> Doubleday, Page & Company<br/> 1915</h3> <hr style="width: 13%; margin-bottom: 2em;" /> <div class="center"><i>Copyright, 1915, by</i></div> <div class="smcap"><big>Doubleday, Page & Company</big></div> <div class="nanospace"> </div> <div class="center"><i>All rights reserved, including that of<br/> translation into foreign languages,<br/> including the Scandinavian</i></div> <hr style="width: 13%; margin-top: 2em;" /> <h2 class="chapter">BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE</h2> <p>The author of this book was born in a teepee of buffalo hide near<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_v" id="Page_v"></SPAN></span> Redwood Falls, Minn., during the winter of 1858. His father was a full-blooded Sioux called "Many Lightnings," (Tawakanhdeota). His mother, the granddaughter of Chief "Cloud Man" of the Sioux and daughter of a well-known army officer, died shortly after his birth. He was named Ohiyesa (The Winner).</p> <p>The baby was reared to boyhood by the care of his grandmother. When he was four years old, the so-called "Minnesota massacre" of 1862 separated him from his father and elder brothers and only sister, and drove him with a remnant of the eastern Sioux into exile in Manitoba. There for over ten years he lived the original nomadic life of his people in the family of an uncle, from whom he received the Spartan training of an Indian youth of that day. The knowledge thus gained of life's realities and the secrets of nature, as well as of the idealistic philosophy of the Indian, he has always regarded as a most valuable part of his education.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_vi" id="Page_vi"></SPAN></span></p> <p>When Ohiyesa had reached the age of fifteen years, and had been presented with a flint-lock musket in token of his arrival at the estate of young manhood, he was astonished by the reappearance of the father whose supposed death at the hands of white men he had been taught that he must some day avenge. He learned that this father had adopted the religion and customs of the hated race, and was come to take home his youngest son.</p> <p>Ohiyesa's new home was a pioneer log cabin on a farm at Flandreau, Dakota Territory, where a small group of progressive Indians had taken up homesteads like white men and were earning an independent livelihood. His long hair was cropped, he was put into a suit of citizen's clothing and sent off to a mission day school. At first reluctant, he soon became interested, and two years later voluntarily walked 150 miles to attend a larger and better school at Santee, Neb., where he made rapid progress under the veteran missionary educator, Dr. Alfred L. Riggs, and was soon advanced to the preparatory department of Beloit College, Wisconsin. His father had adopted his wife's<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii"></SPAN></span> English name of Eastman, and the boy named himself Charles Alexander.</p> <p>After two years at Beloit, young Eastman went on to Knox College, Ill.; then east to Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire, and to Dartmouth College, where Indians had found a special welcome since colonial days. He was graduated from Dartmouth in 1887, and went immediately to Boston University, where he took the medical course, and was graduated in 1890 as orator of his class. The entire time spent in primary, preparatory, college, and professional education, including the mastery of the English language, was seventeen years, or about two years less than is required by the average white youth.</p> <p>Doctor Eastman went directly to the large Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota as Government physician; and during the "Ghost dance" troubles of 1890-91 he was in charge of the wounded Indian prisoners in their emergency hospital. In 1891 he married Miss Elaine Goodale of Berkshire County, Mass.; and in 1893 went to St. Paul, Minn., with his wife and child. While engaged there in the practice of medicine he was approached by a representative of the International Committee<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_viii" id="Page_viii"></SPAN></span> of the Y. M. C. A., and served for three years as their field secretary in the United States and Canada.</p> <p>In 1897 Dr. Eastman went to Washington as attorney for his tribe, to push their interests at the national capital, and from 1899 to 1902 he served again as a Government physician to the Sioux. Beginning in 1903, he spent about seven years giving permanent family names to the Sioux, and thus helping to establish the legal descent of their property, under the direction of the Indian Bureau.</p> <p>His first book, "Indian Boyhood," was published in 1902. It is the story of his own early life in the wilds of Canada, and was the outgrowth of several sketches which appeared in <i>St. Nicholas</i> a few years earlier. Since that time he has written "Red Hunters and the Animal People" (1904), "Old Indian Days" (1906), "Wigwam Evenings" (1909), "The Soul of the Indian" (1911), and "Indian Scout Talks" (1914). All have been successful, and some have been brought out in school editions, and translated into French, German, Danish, and Bohemian. He has also contributed numerous articles to magazines, reviews, and encyclopedias.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_ix" id="Page_ix"></SPAN></span></p> <p>In connection with his writings he has been in steady demand as a lecturer and public speaker for the past twelve years, and has recently devoted his entire time to literary work and lecturing, with the purpose of interpreting his race to the present age.</p> <p>When the first Universal Races Congress was held in the city of London in 1911, Dr. Eastman was chosen to represent the American Indian at that historic gathering. He is generally recognized as the foremost man of his race to-day, and as an authority on the history, customs, and traditions of the native Americans.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_x" id="Page_x"></SPAN></span></p> <hr /> <h2>CONTENTS</h2> <div class="microspace"> </div> <div class='center'><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_xi" id="Page_xi"></SPAN></span> <table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="2" summary="table of contents" width="46%"> <tr><td align='left' class="sc stext"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">CHAPTER</span></td><td align='right' class="sc stext">PAGE</td></tr> <tr><td align='left' class="sc"><span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Indian as He Was</span></td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#chapter_i">3</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left' class="sc"><span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The How and the Why of Indian Wars</span></td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#chapter_ii">19</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left' class="sc"><span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Agency System: Its Uses and Abuses</span></td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#chapter_iii">34</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left' class="sc"><span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. The New Indian Policy</span></td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#chapter_iv">49</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left' class="sc"><span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. The Indian in School</span></td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#chapter_v">64</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left' class="sc"><span style="margin-left: 3em;">VI. The Indian at Home</span></td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#chapter_vi">81</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left' class="sc"><span style="margin-left: 3em;">VII. The Indian as a Citizen</span></td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#chapter_vii">95</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left' class="sc"><span style="margin-left: 3em;">VIII. The Indian in College and the Professions</span></td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#chapter_viii">115</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left' class="sc"><span style="margin-left: 3em;">IX. The Indian's Health Problem</span></td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#chapter_ix">135</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left' class="sc"><span style="margin-left: 3em;">X. Native Arts and Industries</span></td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#chapter_x">148</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left' class="sc"><span style="margin-left: 3em;">XI. The Indian's Gifts to the Nation</span></td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#chapter_xi">164</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left' class="sc"><span style="margin-left: 4.5em;">Bibliography</span></td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#biblio">179</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left' class="sc"><span style="margin-left: 4.5em;">Table of Indian Reservations</span></td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#table_res">183</SPAN></td></tr> </table><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_xii" id="Page_xii"></SPAN></span></div> <hr /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_1" id="Page_1"></SPAN></span></p> <h2 style="font-size: 175%;">THE INDIAN TO-DAY</h2> <div class="minispace"><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_2" id="Page_2"></SPAN></span></div> <div class="minispace"> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />

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