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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cwtokenman, post: 144289, member: 2100&quot;]Hi Bone,</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; This is just some info that I had saved from someone&#039;s ebay auction when they were selling one of those Ohiyesa tokens. Since I had a couple, but no related info, I thought it would be nice to save, so here it is. I&#039;ll see if I can take any pics of my token, not sure where the camera is at the moment. If I need a webhost to post pics here, I may just email you the picture. The following describes my token(s).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;This interesting 25mm copper token depicts Charles A. Eastman, Ohiyesa (Winner), Wahpeton Dakota (Eastern Woodland Sioux), 1858-1939. Physician, autobiographer, legend re-teller, essayist, lecturer. Ohiyesa is shown in full Native American headdress. The reverse of the token says The Winner, Porte Bonheur, Wanamaker-Originator. I don&#039;t know if this is some kind of advertising token or a give away during Ohiyesa&#039;s lectures etc. According to a Web site about the author, Charles Alexander Eastman is unique among Indian writers, whether storytellers or oral historians. He was raised traditionally, as a Woodland Sioux, by his grandmother, from 1858 - 1874, until he was 15. He thus gained a thorough first-hand knowledge of the lifeways, language, culture, and oral history. His father (thought to have been hanged at Mankato, Minnesota) reappeared and insisted that he receive the white man&#039;s education. Educated at Dartmouth and Boston University medical school, Eastman became a highly literate physician, who was the only doctor available to the victims of the Wounded Knee massacre in 1890 -- a major historical event, often described as &quot;ending the Indian wars.&quot; Other Indian writers of this period were either entirely acculturated -- had never lived the traditional life of their people or been educated out of their native knowledge -- or were not literate, and were able to provide only &quot;as told to&quot; materials, through the filters of interpreters and non-Indian writers. Eastman had the lifeways and historical events experiences, and he did not need the literary filters of translators and white anthropologists or collectors. Ohiyesa was first named Hakadah (the Pitiful Last One), because his mother died shortly after his brith, somewhere near Redwood Falls, in southwestern Minnesota, in 1858. His first volume of memoirs -- depicting his traditional life, raised by his Wahpeton grandmother -- does not make it clear that almost all this boyhood took place in Manitoba, Canada, after the band had fled U.S. Army and bounty-hunters, following the defeat of the Dakota uprising in Minnesota, in 1862. An interesting item about a very important person.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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