Wigwam Evenings Charles Alexander Eastman Author

by Charles Alexander Eastman

2021-04-03 11:38:30

The cold December moon is just showing above the tree-tops, pointing a white finger here and there at the clustered teepees of the Sioux, while opposite their winter camp on the lake shore a lonely, wooded island is spread like a black buffalo robe b... Read more
The cold December moon is just showing above the tree-tops, pointing a white finger here and there at the clustered teepees of the Sioux, while opposite their winter camp on the lake shore a lonely, wooded island is spread like a black buffalo robe between the white, snow-covered ice and the dull gray sky.All by itself at the further end of the village stands the teepee of Smoky Day, the old story-teller, the school-master of the woods. The paths that lead to this low brown wigwam are well beaten; deep, narrow trails, like sheep paths, in the hard-frozen snow.To-night a generous fire of logs gives both warmth and light inside the teepee, and the old man is calmly filling his long, red pipe for the smoke of meditation, when the voices and foot-steps of several children are distinctly heard through the stillness of the winter night. Less

Book Details

File size6.00(w)x9.00(h)x0.12(d)
Print pages60
PublisherCreateSpace Publishing
Publication date July 7, 2014
ISBN9781500176891
Charles Alexander Eastman is unique among Indian writers, whether storytellers or oral historians. He was raised traditionally, as a Woodland Sioux, by his grandmother, from 1858 - 1874, until he was ...

Compare Prices

Store Availability Book Format Condition Price
Barnes & Noble In Stock Paperback Paperback Buy USD 6.99
Barnes & NobleIn Stock
Format
Paperback
Condition
Paperback
Buy USD 6.99
Available Discount
No Discount available

Join us and get access to all
your favourite books

Sign up for free and start exploring thousands of eBooks today.

Sign up for free