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The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.
- Charles Eastman
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The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.
- Charles Eastman
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#Institution
#Only
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Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
- Charles Eastman
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Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers.
- Charles Eastman
#Affection
#People
#Strangers
#Time
It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.
- Charles Eastman
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#Purity
#Test
#Woman
#Women
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!
- Charles Eastman
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No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.
- Charles Eastman
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In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.
- Charles Eastman
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#Reason
#Religion
Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.
- Charles Eastman
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#Life
#Old Age
#Old
The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.
- Charles Eastman
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#Race
#Religion
#Understand
#Will
The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.
- Charles Eastman
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#Hero
#Man
#Miracles
#Old
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.
- Charles Eastman
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#More
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There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
- Charles Eastman
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#Save
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#Those
#Us
Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.
- Charles Eastman
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#God
#Men
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#Us
The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.
- Charles Eastman
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#Fire
#Nature
#Water
#Wind
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.
- Charles Eastman
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#Easy
#Family
#Friendship
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