Charles Alexander Eastman

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

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(10 votes)   Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

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(8 votes)   The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

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(43 votes)   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. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

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(20 votes)   Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

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(18 votes)   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.

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(16 votes)   Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.

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(11 votes)   In the life of the Indian there was only one inevitable duty, - the duty of prayer - the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal.

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(11 votes)   Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.

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(10 votes)   But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!

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

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(10 votes)   Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

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(10 votes)   It is noteworthy that the first effect of contact with the whites was an increase of cruelty and barbarity, an intensifying of the dark shadows in the picture!

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(10 votes)   More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

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(10 votes)   The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.

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