Indian Child Life: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Indian Child Life, credited to Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa), is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Indian Child Life, by Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa). The author was raised as an American Indian and describes what it was like to be an Indian boy (the first 7 chapters) and an Indian Girl (the last 7 chapters). This is very different from the slanted way the white man tried to picture them as 'savages' and 'brutes. 'Quote: Dear Children:—You will like to know that the man who wrote these true stories is himself one of the people he describes so pleasantly and so lovingly for you. He hopes that when you have finished this book, the Indians will seem to you very real and very friendly. He is not willing that all your knowledge of the race that formerly possessed this continent should come from the lips of strangers and enemies, or that you should think of them as blood-thirsty and treacherous, as savage and unclean. (Summary by author's preface and Phil Chenevert)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Indian Child Life
• Author credits: Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa)
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 2:42:54

Catalogue topics

• indian
• child
• eastman
• ohiyesa

Track guide

1. 00 - A Letter to the Children — 5:21
2. 01 - The Pitiful Last — 9:40
3. 02 - Early Hardships — 11:41
4. 03 - An Indian Sugar Camp — 7:25
5. 04 - Games and Sports — 11:46
6. 05 - An Indian Boy's Training — 11:48
7. 06 - The Boy Hunter — 10:30
8. 07 - Evening in Tthe Lodge — 16:27
9. 08 - Winona's Childhood — 7:53
10. 09 - Winona's Girlhood — 8:22
11. 10 - A midsummer Feast — 10:12
12. 11 - The Faithfulness of Long Ears — 13:31
13. 12 - Snana's Fawn — 11:09
14. 13 Hakadah's First Offering — 12:50
15. 14 - The Grave of the Dog — 14:26

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