New Children's Book, "Indian Boyhood: The True Story of a Sioux Upbringing" by Charles Eastman

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - May 11, 2016 - PRLog -- Imagine a childhood full of adventure. Where riding horses, playing in the woods, and hunting for food was part of everyday life; where a grizzly bear, a raccoon, or a squirrel was your favorite pet. But imagine, too, being an orphan

at the age of six, being forced off your land by soldiers, and often going hungry. Such was the Santee Dakota childhood of famed American Indian author, Charles Alexander Eastman, also known as Ohiyesa.


About Charles Eastman

* The first great American Indian author,

publishing eleven books from 1902-1918

* Co-Founder of the Boy Scouts of America

* A Field Secretary of the YMCA

* An activist and lobbyist for the Sioux Tribal Nation

* Graduated from Dartmouth College and attended medical school at Boston College and cared for Indians after Wounded Knee

* The main character in the 2007 HBO film Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

* Presented a special medal at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair honoring the most distinguished achievements by an American Indian

Publication Details

* ISBN: 978-1-937786-56-4

* Pub Date: June 2016

* Price: $17.95

* Trim Size: 8x10

* Page Count: 44 pages, hardcover

* Ages: 4 and up

"Charles Eastman is the first major Indian author to write Indian history from the

Indian perspective."

-Raymond Wilson, author of Ohiyesa: Charles Eastman, Santee Sioux, and editor of Native Americans in the Twentieth Century

About the Editor

Michael O. Fitzgerald is the author and editor of more than fifteen books that have received over two dozen awards, including the prestigious ForeWord Book of the Year Award, the Ben Franklin Award, and the USA Best Books Award. At least ten of his books and two documentary films produced by him are used in high school and university classes. Michael has taught the Religious Traditions of the North American Indians at Indiana University. He is an adopted son of

the late Thomas Yellowtail, one of the most honored American Indian spiritual leaders of the last century. Working with the Lakota Language Consortium, he helped found the Crow Language Consortium, dedicated to the preservation of the Crow language. Michael and his wife, award winning editor Judith Fitzgerald, live in southern Indiana and spend their time surrounded by their extended family.

Heidi M. Rasch was born near Stuttgart, Germany, to an English-Indian mother and a German father and has been painting sincechildhood. She and her family traveled to the Crow Reservation, where her interest in America's native peoples was intensified. Heidi went on to study fashion design and work in theater across Europe, including Paris' famed Comédie-Française, before moving to America. For the past decade, she has made annual trips to the American West to visit the Crow and Shoshone tribal reservations, where she maintains many

close relationships. She and her two daughters were adopted into the Crow tribe by Joe Medicine Crow, at the time the oldest male member of the Crow tribe, and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana.


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