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Charles Eastman Quotes
Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity. - Charles Eastman Quotes
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 Quotes
But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man! - Charles Eastman Quotes
Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act. - Charles Eastman Quotes
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. - Charles Eastman Quotes
He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are Gods. - Charles Eastman Quotes
In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees. - Charles Eastman Quotes
In the life of the Indian there was only one inevitable duty, - the duty of prayer - the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. - Charles Eastman Quotes
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 Quotes
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. - Charles Eastman Quotes
It is noteworthy that the first effect of contact with the whites was an increase of cruelty and barbarity, an intensifying of the dark shadows in the picture! - Charles Eastman Quotes
It was solitary, because they believed that He is nearer to us in solitude, and there were no priests authorized to come between a man and his Maker. - 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 Quotes
No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people. - Charles Eastman Quotes
Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life. - Charles Eastman Quotes
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. - Charles Eastman Quotes
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 Quotes
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church. - Charles Eastman Quotes
The Indian was a religious man from his mothers womb. - Charles Eastman Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government. - Charles Eastman Quotes
The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war. - Charles Eastman Quotes
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 Quotes
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. - Charles Eastman Quotes
The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind. - Charles Eastman Quotes
The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand. - Charles Eastman Quotes
The rites of this physical worship, again, were wholly symbolic, and the Indian no more worshiped the Sun than the Christian adores the Cross. - Charles Eastman Quotes
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. - Charles Eastman Quotes
There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature. - Charles Eastman Quotes
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