Indian Boyhood

By: Charles A. Eastman

Narrated by: Deaver Brown

An original, insightful recounting of an Indian boyhood with specific descriptions of the life, practices, nomadic movements, killings, warfare with other tribes, courtship, coming of age, and more. The best insight into true and accurate 19th-century Indian life from an insider, of a boy and young brave coming of age.

Public Domain (P)2021 Deaver Brown

Performance took much from story

This is nearly too difficult for listening. The narrator has a start-stop cadence and seems to have trouble reading in general. The narrator also struggled to pronounce Indigenous names and did not enunciate so words in places ran together. It surprised me that this passed to be published on Audible. It is a disservice to such important historical writing. The stories are wonderful and paint a beautiful picture of Indigenous culture prior to Whites ruining their way of life.