Eastman, a Santee Dakota raised in the old ways before training as a doctor, sets out to describe the religious life of the American Indian as it was before the white man came. He writes of the Great Mystery, prayer in solitude, the family altar, ceremony and symbol, the moral code, and the stories that served as unwritten scriptures.
A short, dignified account written from the inside, rare among books of its era. Download the free EPUB.