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In 1885 a genteel New England girl traveled to the western frontier to open a school on the Great Sioux Reservation. For six years, Elaine Goodale Eastman taught, hunted with, and lived among the Lakotas, who were experiencing profound changes as buffalo herds dwindled and they were forced to adjust to reservation life. Her informative and sometimes poignant recollections of those years tell much about the daily lives of the Lakotas and how they grappled with challenges to their way of life. Goodale Eastman witnessed the arrival and flowering of the Ghost Dance religion, visited with Sitting Bull shortly before his death, and in December 1890 was 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 frequently contradictory attitudes of outsiders drawn to them.
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reviewed Sister to the Sioux (Second Edition): The Memoirs of Elaine Goodale Eastman, 1885-1891 on September 16, 2012
Sister to the Sioux (Second Edition): The Memoirs of Elaine Goodale Eastman, 1885-1891
This is a lovely book written by a woman who had been present during the final years of the earthbound Dakota Sioux culture as it was forced to convert to the white man's culture and ways of life. She writes of working to secure schooling in the territory. She does have an older way of writing that may seem dry to the modern reader, but it rings true and carries as much emotion as they would reveal in the early 1900s.
It is a good introduction to some of the changes and problems that led to Wounded Knee. She views the Dakota with empathy and understanding. It is sad where she ends the book, not only with the description of the massacre, but also her return to a domestic role as a homebound housewife with a traveling husband, especially where she was so free and independent when traveling herself through the land of the Dakotas.
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