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

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

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

The seven Local 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.”