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Charles Alexander Eastman (February 19, 1858 – January 8, 1939, born Hakadah and later named Ohíye S'a, sometimes written Ohiyesa) was an American physician, writer, and social reformer.
Charles (Chuck) M. Eastman (May 5, 1940 – November 9, 2020) was a professor and a pioneer in the areas of design cognition, building information modeling (BIM), solid and parametric modeling, engineering databases, product models, and interoperability.
Feb 8, 2024 · Charles Eastman. Charles A. Eastman was a Santee Dakota Sioux born of a mixed-race mother (Mary Nancy Eastman or Winona) and a Santee Dakota father (Many Lightnings). He was named Hakadah ("The Pitiful Last") because his mother died during his birth.
Charles Alexander Eastman, aka Ohiyesa, a Santee Sioux Indian, was the first Native American to be certified in Western medicine, a writer, national lecturer, and reformer.
Famed author and lecturer Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) was raised in a traditional Dakota manner until age fifteen, when he entered Euro-American culture at his father's request. He spent the rest of his life moving between Native American and white American worlds, achieving renown but never financial security.
Eastman worked to protect Lakota property rights and land titles through a project to institute “American” names for the Dakota and Lakota Sioux. He held the position until 1908. Writing and traveling Ohiyesa, or Charles Alexander Eastman, was a bi-cultural man of profound words.
Jan 4, 2022 · General Overviews. Dismissed by many early scholars as a product of cultural assimilation and mouthpiece for white reformers, Eastman now serves as a key figure in recent critical reconsiderations of indigenous literature and performance in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
