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Brief about Charles Eastman: By info that we know Charles Eastman was born at 1970-01-01. And also Charles Eastman is Sioux Author.

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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.

Tags: Between, Marriage, Woman

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

Tags: Among, Nature, Save

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.

Tags: Men, Religion, Spiritual

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

Tags: Character, Friendship, Test

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.

Tags: Family, Head, Union

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

Tags: Friend, Trials, True

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

Tags: Age, Life, Old

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

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

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

Tags: Him, Religion, Understand

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.

Tags: Character, Nature, Spiritual

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

Tags: Among, God, Men

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

Tags: Life, Real, Sense

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

Tags: Influence, Reason, Religion

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

Tags: Deny, Home, Polite

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

Tags: American, Religion, War

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

Tags: Family, Government, Social

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

Tags: Limited, War
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