Charles Eastman

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

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people. ”

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

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

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! ”

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government. ”

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

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. ”

The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe. ”

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning. ”