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Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939) was a mixed- blood Sioux. His maternal grandmother, a daughter of Chief Cloudman of the Mdewankton Sioux, was married to a wll-known western artist, Captain Seth Eastman, and in 1847 their daughter Mary Nancy Eastman became the wife of Chief Many Lightenings, a Wahpeton Sioux. Their fifth child, Charles Alexander Eastman, as a four-year old was given the name Ohiyesa (the Winner).
During the Sioux Uprising of 1862 Ohiyesa became separated from his father, his mother had died soon after his birth and fled from the reservation in Minnesota to Canada under the protection of his grandmother and uncle. There he was schooled in the Indian ways until the age of fifteen, when he was reunited with his father, who took him back to his homestead in present South Dakota.
"The Soul of the India" is to paint the religious life of the typical American Indian as it was before he knew the white man.
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