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The Soul Of The Indian Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

CharlesAlexander Eastman, an educated and well-known Sioux, saw both sides of thegreat separate between Indians and whites, and he wrote eleven books attemptingto reconcile the two ethnicities. Although he was a convert to Christianity,Eastman under no circumstances lost his feeling from the wholeness and beauty from the Indian’srelation to his lifestyle and to the natural world.

These sixessays around the Indian’s spiritual beliefs and cultural habits, told in verypersonal terms and in conjunction with seven folk tales, illuminate the high ethicsand morality of the culture that few people know about.

The six essays are: “The Great Mystery,””The Family Altar,” “Ceremonial and Symbolic Worship,” “Barbarism and the MoralCode,” “The Unwritten Scriptures,” and “For the Borderland of Spirits.”

The seven Native American tales are: “TheBuffalo and the Field Mouse,” “The Frogs as well as the Crane,” “The Falcon and theDuck,” “The Raccoon as well as the Bee Tree,” “The Comrades,” “The Runaways,” and “TheMagic Arrows.”