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and Ojibwe language and culture enthusiasts ages fourteen and above

Written by Patricia Ningewance

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The intimate and interested narrative voices carry the readers

Indian Boyhood indigenous crafts it is also a culturalAt the beginning of Indian Boyhood Eastman recalls the 1862 Sioux Uprising in Minnesota that sent his family into exile in Canada. He describes his childhood there, which ended when his father, who had been presumed dead, appeared to take him back to the United States. An Indian boy's training, child hood games, harvesting and feasts, legends told around a campfireEastman relates all aspects of the rich traditional life of the Santee Sioux, which had