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"The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity."

Charles Eastman, Sioux Author

Despised, American, Poverty, Simplicity

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"The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity."

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"The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity."

Charles Eastman, Sioux Author

Despised, American, Poverty, Simplicity

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"Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act."

"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."

"The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb."

"In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees."

"Friendship is held to be the severest test of character."

"But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!"

"He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's."

"The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church."

"At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training."

"Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity."

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