scanty
English education in books, but he has secured an excellent training,
chiefly by mingling with cultured white people.

His proud statement once was; "every adult member of the Flandreau band
is a professing Christian, and every child of school age is in school."
During the "Ghost Dance War," in 1890, his band remained quietly at
home, busy about their affairs. In the spring of 1891, they divided
$40,000 among themselves.

Charles Alexander Eastman was born in 1858, in Minnesota, the ancestral
home of the Sioux, and passed the first fifteen years of his life in
the heart of the wilds of British America, enjoying to the full, the
free, nomadic existence of his race. During all this time, he lived in
a teepee of buffalo skins, subsisted upon wild rice and the fruits of
the chase, never entered a house nor heard the English language spoken,
and was taught to distrust and hate the white man.

The second period (third) of his life was spent in school and college,
where after a short apprenticeship in a mission school, he stood
shoulder to shoulder, with our own youth, at Beloit, Knox, Dartmouth
and the Boston university. He is an alumnus of Dartmouth of '87 and of
Boston University, department of medicine, of '90.

During the last fifteen years, he has been a man of varied interests
and occupations, a physician, missionary, writer and speaker of wide
experience and, for the greater part of the time, has held an
appointment under the government.

At his birth he was called "Hakadah" or "The Pitiful Last," as his
mother died shortly after his birth. He bore this sad name till years
afterwards he was called Ohiyesa, "The Winner," to commemorate a great
victory of La Crosse, the Indian's favorite game, won by his band, "The
Leaf Dwellers," over their foes, the Ojibways. When he received this
new name, the leading medicine man thus exhorted him: "Be brave, be
patient and thou shalt always win. Thy name is "Ohiyesa the Winner.""
The spirit of his benediction seems to follow and rest upon him in his
life-service.

His grandmother was "Stands-Like-a-Spirit," the second daughter of the
old chief Cloudman. His full-blooded Sioux father was a remarkable man
in many ways and his mother, a half-blood woman, was the daughter of a
well-known army officer. She was the most beautiful woman of the "Leaf
Dwellers" band. By reason of her great beauty, she was called
"Demi-Goddess of the Sioux." Save for her luxuriant, black hair,