Charles Eastman Quotations

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.

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

The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.

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

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

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

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

At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training.

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

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