Dahcotah: Or, Life and Legends of the Sioux around Fort Snelling - Tapa blanda

“Mrs. Eastman's aim has been to preserve from destruction such legends and traits of Indian character as had come to her knowledge during long familiarity; with the Dahcotahs, and nothing can be fresher or more authentic than her records, taken down from the very lips of the red people as they sat around her fire and opened their hearts to her kindness. She has even caught their tone, and her language will be found to have something of an Ossianic simplicity and abruptness, well suited to the theme. Sympathy,—feminine and religious,—breathes through these pages.” -Mrs. C. M. Kirkland

“Mrs. Eastman, it appears, lived for seven years at Fort Snelling, at which fort her husband was in all that period stationed. She employed most of the leisure time which the monotonous garrison life left at her disposal, in studying the Indian character as it developed itself in the Dahcotah who dwelt in the neighborhood. The fruits of her observations are given in a very interesting form, and the legends which she has carefully collected, throw much light upon the hitherto little understood character of a race now nearly extinct. The work commends itself by its apparent truthfulness, in forming important evidence, by an accurate witness, in relation to the yet unwritten history of the red man.” -The United States Democratic Review, Volume 24., 1849

Mock-Pe-En-Dag-A-Win; or, Checkered Cloud, the Medicine Woman

Red Earth; or, Mocka-Doota-Win

Wenona; or, the Virgin's Feast

The Dahcotah Convert Wabashaw

Wabashaw or the Leaf

The Dahcotah Bride

Shah-Co-Pee. The Orator of the Sioux

Oye-Kar-Mani-Vim, The Track Maker

Eta Keazah or, Sullen Face

Tonwa-Yah-Pe-Kin, The Spies

The Maiden's Rock or, Wenona's Leap

The Indian in a Trance

Oeche-Monesah, The Wanderer

Tah-We-Chut-Kin, The Wife

Wha-Zee-Yan, Another of the Giant Gods of the Dahcotahs

Storms in Life and Nature; or, Unktahe and the Thunder Bird

Haokah Ozape, The Dance of the Giant

U-Mi-Ne-Wah-Chippe, or, To Dance Around