Ohiyesa - From Sioux To Surgeon

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Born in the deep woods of Minnesota, he was named Hakadah (Pitiful Last) when his mother died during childbirth. He was renamed Ohiyesa (Always Wins) after winning at Indian LaCross games. At fifteen his father, who had converted to the white man's way of life and taken the name Jacob Eastman, steered him into civilization. Ohiyesa - Charles Alexander Eastman was educated at Beloit, Knox, Dartmouth and Boston Colleges, the first Native American to be certified in Western medicine. As a doctor, he saw first-hand the hard life on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and tended fellow Indians of the Wounded Knee Massacre. This fully illustrated 104 page book "Ohiyesa - From Sioux To Surgeon" will thrill the reader with dramatic history of the old west reborn.