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Sister to the Sioux (Second Edition): The Memoirs of Elaine Goodale Eastman, 1885-1891

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In 1885 a genteel New England girl traveled to the western frontier to open a school at the Great Sioux Reservation. For six years, Elaine Goodale Eastman taught, hunted with, and lived a number of the Lakotas, who were experiencing profound changes as buffalo herds dwindled and so they were forced to adjust to reservation life. Her informative and once in a while poignant recollections of those years tell much concerning the day by day lives of the Lakotas and how they grappled with challenges to their way of living. Goodale Eastman witnessed the arrival and flowering of the Ghost Dance religion, visited with Sitting Bull in a while before his death, and in December 1890 used to be at Pine Ridge, where she and her future husband, Dr. Charles Eastman, cared for the survivors of the Wounded Knee massacre. Sister to the Sioux bears witness to a critical and tragic era in Lakota history and reveals the ceaselessly contradictory attitudes of outsiders drawn to them.

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