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can enter, and when overturned in the 

 sea they are able to right themselves 

 sinp;le handed with the paddle. The 

 ornamental arts of the East Greenland- 

 ers are neglected, except among one iso- 

 lated band in the remote N. e. Their 

 winter houses, made of stones and sod, 

 are long and narrow, with family benches 

 on one side, and can be stretched out 

 to accommodate more people than the 

 square houses of Alaska. The large 

 public buildings of the western tribes 

 they know only by tradition. The East 

 Greenlanders numbered 548, comprising 

 245 males and 303 female^, in_ 1884, not 

 counting a few scattered families of ui> 

 known numbers living n. of 68° (Rink, 

 Eskimo Tribes, 1887). The entire south- 

 ern group of the East Greenlanders, all 

 the pagan Eskimo of Tingmiarmiut and 

 the other places s. of Angmagsalik, 114 

 individuals altogether, emigi-ated between 

 1887 and 1900 to Kernertok, near C. Fare- 

 well. 



The villages and settlements of the East 

 Greenlanders, past and present, are as fol- 

 lows: Akernivak, Akorninarmiut, Aluik, 

 Aluk, Amivik, Anarnisok, Angmagsalik, 

 Anoritok, Aputitek, Atangime, Auarkat, 

 Estale, Igdluarsuk, Ikatek, Jkerasak, Ilui- 

 lek, Imarsivik, Ingmikertok, Inigsalik, 

 Inugsiut, Ivimiut, Kangarsik, Kangigd- 

 lek, Kemisak, Kernertok, Ivialinek, Ki- 

 kertarsoak, Kinarbik, Koremiut, Ku- 

 marmiut, Kutek, Manitsuk, Nanusek, 

 Narsuk, Norajik, Norsit, Nualik, Nuna- 

 kitit, Okiosorbik, Orkua, Patuterajuit, 

 Pikiutdlek, Sangmisok, Sarkarmiut, Ser- 

 miligak, Sermilik, Sivinganek, Sivingar- 

 narsik. Tarsia, Tasiusarsik, Taterat, 

 Tingmiarmiut, Umanak, Umivik, Utor- 

 karmiut. ( n. w. h. ) 



Eastman, Charles Alexander ( Oldyem, 

 'the Winner'). A Santee Dakota phy- 

 sician and author, born in 1858 near Eed- 

 wood Falls, INIinn. His father was a full- 

 blood Sioux named Many Lightnings, 

 and his mother the half-l;)lood daughter 

 of a well-known army officer. His mother 

 dying soon after his birth, he was reared 

 by his paternal grandmother and an 

 uncle, who after the INIinnesota massacre 

 in 1862 fled with the boy into Canada. 

 Here he lived the life of a wild Indian 

 until he was 15 years of age, when his 

 father, who in the meantime had accepted 

 Christianity and civilization, sought him 

 out and brought him home to Flandreau, 

 S. Dak., where a few Sioux families had 

 established themselves as farmers and 

 homesteaders. Ohiyesa was placed in 

 the mission school at Santee, Nebr., where 

 he made such progress in 2 years that he 

 was selected for a more advanced course 

 and sent to Beloit College, Beloit, Wis. 

 After 2 years spent there in the prepara- 

 tory department he went to Knox Col- 



lege, Galesburg, 111., thence to Kiml)all 

 Academy and Dartmouth College, New 

 Hampshire. He was graduated from 

 Dartmouth in 1887, and immediately 

 entered the Boston University school of 

 medicine, receiving the degree of M. D. in 

 1890. Dr Eastman was then appointed 

 Government physician to the Pine Ridge 

 agency, S. Dak., and served there nearly 

 3 J' ears, through the ghost-dance disturb- 

 ance and afterward. In 1893 he went to 

 St Paul, INIinn., and entered there on the 

 practice of medicine, also serving for 3 

 years as traveling secretary of the Young 

 Jlen's Christian Association among the 

 Indians. Afterward he was attorney for 

 the Sioux at Washington, and later again 

 Government ph}'sician at Crow Creek, 

 S. Dak. In 1903 he was appointed by 

 the Office of Indian Affairs to the special 



ARLES ALEXANDER EASTMAN. (HARPER & BROS. > 



work of revising the allotment rolls and 

 selecting i^ermanent family names for the 

 Sioux. His first book, "Indian Boy- 

 hood," appeared in 1902, and "Red 

 Hunters and the Animal People" in 

 1904. He is an occasional contributor to 

 the magazines and lectures frequentlj' on 

 Indian life and liistory. In 1891 Dr 

 Eastman married ]\Iiss Elaine Goodale, 

 of Massachusetts, and they have 6 chil- 

 dren, (e. G.E.) 



Eastman, John {Mahpii/aicahavlidan, 

 'Sacred Cloud Worshipper'). A Santee 

 Dakota of three-fourths blood, brother 

 of Charles Alexander Eastman, noted as 

 being a college-l)red Presbyterian clergy- 

 man; born in Mar., 1849, at Shakopee, 

 Minn. His father was Many Lightnings, 

 a full-blood Sioux, who, on becoming a 

 Christian in 1864, took the name of Jacob 

 Eastman. His mother, Mary Nancy 

 Eastman, was the daughter of Capt. Seth 



