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or control nature to suit their needs and that they were able to do so with the assistance of supernatural allies

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The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation Diné (Navajo) Daybreak WomanIn The Soul of the Indian, first published in 1911, the author's aim has been "to paint the religious life of the typical American Indian as it was before he knew the white man." Charles Alexander Eastman (1858 1939) was a mixed blood Sioux. His maternal grandmother, daughter of Chief Cloudman of the Mdewankton Sioux, was married to a well known western artist, Captain Seth Eastman, and in 1847 their daughter Mary Nancy Eastman became the wife of