Charles Eastman Quotes
Sioux - Author February 19, 1858 - January 8, 1939


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.
Charles Eastman

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
Charles Eastman

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

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

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

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